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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was tacky and not a good look for fcps. It got Washington Post coverage:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/06/17/fairfax-schools-phishing-email-teacher-appreciation/
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Did FCPS IT send a fake email testing to see which teachers would click a link?  I’m a teacher in another district.  If that was it, I find it hard to believe anyone took an email from a superintendent with a gift card link seriously.  The bizarre thing is if this was purposefully created by their own people.  I don’t really understand this situation.   [/quote]

From the article:
"The district’s IT department periodically sends out fake phishing emails to test teachers and staff as a cybersecurity measure. It’s a common practice for companies to avoid staff falling prey to phishing, a type of online scam where bad actors send emails posing as a real organization to trick recipients into clicking a link or attachment.

Staff on the receiving end of a test email are expected to flag the email as a phishing attempt. Those who flag the email will receive a response for correctly identifying the scam, and those who follow the link are redirected to additional cybersecurity information to avoid attacks in the future.

Some teachers in Fairfax found the contents of the email to be a bit insensitive. David Walrod, president of the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers, said the choice of language on the last day of school — when teachers are already tired — was not a good look."[/quote]

Yes we are “tested” periodically on spam emails. I once got an email from them about a training and marked it spam and then got notification that it wasn’t fake and the IT was requiring a training for teachers. No thanks.

But, back to this. I saw it and knew it was fake and didn’t think much of it. I was confused what Reid’s apology was for before I made the connection. The IT department must really hate teachers![/quote]

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