I irregularly clean out my spam folder, and it's rare, but I do catch the odd legitimate email in there. But last month I was nearly caught out by a dumb phishing attempt.

There was an ex of mine who would quite regularly send nonsense cutesy videos to a bcc list including my own email. However, one email I spotted in spam had a personal message and a bitly shortcode.

I forgot to check the sender domain, it was something like my-ex@i-phone-asia.pk... I was very very nearly about to click on that link, doubting the spam filter could effectively tell a phishing attempt from a tidal wave of internet forwarded garbage.