March 26, 2024, 7:18 p.m. | /u/thelizardlarry

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I've lost count how many times a scammer has emailed someone at my company pretending to be a leader asking for a phone number. We do a lot of training to educate on this, but still it's frustrating. When you check the sender email address it's always nonsense, but by default Gmail does not expose the actual email address, it just shows the name.

I suspect showing the email address by default to the user would curb a lot of …

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