Oof! Almost fell for a phishing email. Got a “payment failed” email seemingly from OpenAI and without thinking, I clicked the big link to update my payment method. Caught myself and took note of the sender before the page finished loading (it was a frickin’ Gmail address, for heaven’s sake). Closed it immediately and blocked the sender.

The thing is, I’ve been getting some payment failure emails recently as I had to update my credit card and I missed some subscriptions. Maybe without that recency bias my guard wouldn’t have been so far down as it was this evening. Although probably not because there wasn’t much thinking going through my head when I saw the email. I was distracted, tired, and just absentminded.

It probably didn’t help that it also slipped through the spam and phishing filter. Funny how such protection could lull someone in a false sense of security: “the email’s not in the spam filter, so it must be genuine.” 🤦

Anyway, be careful out there.