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With the holidays around the corner, GoDaddy employees received an email last week offering some welcome financial relief: a $650 holiday bonus.
Two days later, they received another email from GoDaddy:
“You failed our recent phishing test.” https://coppercourier.com/story/godaddy-employees-holiday-bonus-secruity-test/
Two days later, they received another email from GoDaddy:
“You failed our recent phishing test.” https://coppercourier.com/story/godaddy-employees-holiday-bonus-secruity-test/
This move comes as thousands of Arizonans are unemployed or experiencing financial anxiety amid the pandemic.
Employees at GoDaddy are no exception. Earlier this year the company laid off or reassigned hundreds of people in Arizona, Iowa and Texas. https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/news-releases/press-release-details/2020/GoDaddy-Blog-Update/default.aspx
Employees at GoDaddy are no exception. Earlier this year the company laid off or reassigned hundreds of people in Arizona, Iowa and Texas. https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/news-releases/press-release-details/2020/GoDaddy-Blog-Update/default.aspx
But it’s not the first company this year to trick employees into falling for a phishing scam by dangling the carrot of a bonus.
Tribune Publishing sent a similar email to its employees earlier this year, prompting severe backlash on Twitter. https://twitter.com/dtohl/status/1308839731443179520
Tribune Publishing sent a similar email to its employees earlier this year, prompting severe backlash on Twitter. https://twitter.com/dtohl/status/1308839731443179520
Tribune later apologized, telling @VICE that the phishing test was “misleading and insensitive.”
GoDaddy has not responded to multiple requests for comment about its emails. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3z8g5/tribune-publishing-out-evils-itself-with-phishing-email-promising-bonuses
GoDaddy has not responded to multiple requests for comment about its emails. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3z8g5/tribune-publishing-out-evils-itself-with-phishing-email-promising-bonuses
