Microsoft Cares About Your Junk

and probably helps you to avoid phishing and junk mails.

A screenshot from Outlooks Junk Email Screen

I love smart UX decisions. Tiny design elements that solve a vast problem. The 80–20 things. The low-hanging fruits. You get the point.

Here is a simple scam/phishing that occurs (at least on this side of the world):

1. The scammer picks up your LinkedIn profile.
2. Finds your current organization.
3. Identifies the CEO/CXOs name
4. Sends you an email on your personal/work email with their name, asking for a quick reply for some ‘urgent’ work.

(FYI — this is called Business Email Compromise. Read more about it here)

Something like this:

A sample Business email compromise (BEC) email

Most of the time, they’re really just spoofing your bosses name, with the real sender email being either something super random (pqwirhqwqt@random-domain.com) or something that is close to bosses' email, but not really (your-bosses-name@random-domain.com).

In the example shown above, it would be hard for Dakota to verify if the email is legit. Sure, MS and other ESPs do their…