I’ve started seeing phishing emails that try to simulate those email spam summaries you occasionally get from centralised spam-traps. I don’t usually get these sorts of messages so my suspicions where heightened when I saw these emails this morning, and after checking the domain — which takes too many clicks to do, Apple! — my suspicions were confirmed.
And it got me thinking: why didn’t Apple’s Mail summary indicated that these messages were spam? Not that I have any expectation for Apple’s AI do so, but the conspiratorial part of me started wondering whether it actually did, and report it as such in the summary. Here’s how the message looks in the Inbox list:
Could it be “spam report,” as in “this is a report on spam;” or “spam report,” as in “this is spam, and is made to look like a report?” I’ve not seen phishing attempts that try to look like these sorts of mail messages before, and I’m wondering if spammers and phishers are now trying to tailor their messages to try and fool the AI into producing an ambiguous dscription where the AI is trying to report the message as spam, yet the reader interpertes it to mean that the message is about spam.
Again, this is probably just conspiratorial thinking on my part, and I’ve just been one of the lucky ones to have not seen these phishing messages before.