I am grateful for the promptings at work to warn about phishing emails that led me to realize I had received just such an email.
The major thing that sent up a flag for me about the email was it had an unsolicited PDF attached to it. Very, very odd and suspicious.
Something I had learned about phishing is it appears to come from a trusted source, and such was the case here; it showed as being from the vendor of an application I use every day at work, and which I will soon be taking specialized training on that this vendor supplies. Due to this training I have been in contact with one of their personnel.
So I clicked a button that appears in our corporate email utility that sends suspected phishing email to our data security group. Also received an apology email from the vendor; from the contents of that I suspect they were dealing with a hijacked internal system that was generating the phishing.
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