A phishing email made it through gmail's spam filter, and it's the first I can remember receiving that felt targeted to my generation's anxieties, so I thought I'd take a minute to point out details that started throwing red flags before I even got to the second-half giveaway.
🧵 I'm starting here because it's perhaps the least obvious and the least talked about: urgency. Whether it's a looming threat or a closing window of opportunity, scammers nearly always infuse their messages with urgency.

(Hoo boy this character limit sucks.)

In this thread: I retroactively livetweet the City of Portland's "Choose Love" "community gathering" seven days after it happened, while exploring the boundary of rum consumption between making the event tolerable and not being too hung over to work for pay at 6 am tomorrow. The recorded stream bafflingly has a half hour of lead-time before the "gathering," so I've already launched the video. For authenticity.