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Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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So, your suggestion is to feed private, potentially sensitive information to an LLM and then trust its judgment?
I'm sure that a bank / delivery company / doctor's office that uses such terrible practices is actually on the ball when it comes to making sure all the links they send only work once and time out after a while, right? So, when a guy in Nigeria is working at his job where he reviews LLM sessions to ensure they're sycophantic enough, there's no issue. He can't click on it or sell the data to criminals or anything, can he?
I'm really not sure that I'm giving them anything they don't already have, but i was speaking of incoming potential spam. Like notifications about class action lawsuits. Generally speaking, if a spammer knows something about me, that means it's already out there. And if they know enough about me, it's probably an email I can identify as not spam because they know things that spammers wouldn't know............ so I don't think I'm really pasting in any truly sensitive information in the first place, but I've tried to address the point anyway.
If it's not spam, you're telling the chatbot that you were one of the people whose penile implant malfunctioned and are part of the class action lawsuit about that. That means you're telling the Nigerian chatbot quality control expert about that.