Writer nearly falls for phishing email claiming his account was accessed from Delhi
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-29
Blogger Stewart Alsop III shares a close call with phishing: scammers sent him an email claiming his account had been accessed from Delhi — a message engineered to trigger panic and immediate action.
"They are getting so good, almost got me," he writes, attaching a screenshot of the fake alert. The classic "login from a strange location" social-engineering trick still works widely; the takeaway is to verify through official channels rather than clicking links in the email.
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