Never go full Podesta

You may recall that a major reason that the Clinton emails got hacked so thoroughly is because campaign chairman John Podesta got an illegitimate email containing a poison link, and he clicked on it. When that fact became public, the word went out that some lesser light of the campaign would have to take the fall:

Last March, Podesta received an email purportedly from Google saying hackers had tried to infiltrate his Gmail account. When an aide emailed the campaign’s IT staff to ask if the notice was real, Clinton campaign aide Charles Delavan replied that it was “a legitimate email" and that Podesta should “change his password immediately.”

Instead of telling the aide that the email was a threat and that a good response would be to change his password directly through Google’s website, he had inadvertently told the aide to click on the fraudulent email and give the attackers access to the account.

Delavan told the Times he had intended to type "illegitimate,” a typo he still has not forgiven himself for making.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, right.

Anyway, whilst checking my email's spam folder (sometimes legit senders get sent there), I found this:

Wow, someone was sending me money!!!!! I thought it might be the $5 million Mrs. Coleman, the wife of a Kuwaiti oil minister, had promised to send me.

So I clicked on the link "Accept Payment" and . . . .

Of course I didn't click on the link. I did hover my mouse cursor over it and learned right away that this is not even a decent fraud - the link resolved to http://elegantcountry.com slash something.

And so my advice is very simple. Be like me, not like John Podesta. Never go full Podesta!