"I went from thinking this was the job to realizing it wasn't going to work and trying to figure out how to tell my wife that I was going to have to start the job hunt all over again."
I just wanted to say - I have been there, and I feel you. When I read that, it was visceral - took me right back to the couple times I've had those moments. Good on you for keeping on, and using what the experience offered to make things better afterwards.
> It showed us a chart of the verified and caught spammers, as well as how much time they were spending manually typing in messages while completing Captchas...that were never delivered. Our worst offender was doing this for 15 hours a day straight.
This was the capstone on a multipart blog series so some parts in here are intentionally vague because the other sections expand on them.
Here are the others:
Automatically Revering Account Takeovers
https://www.brightball.com/articles/automatically-reversing-...
Combating Phishing with DMARC
https://www.brightball.com/articles/combatting-phishing-with...
Deploying DMARC without Breaking Everything
https://www.brightball.com/articles/deploying-dmarc-without-...
Enterprise Challenges with DMARC Deployment
https://www.brightball.com/articles/enterprise-challenges-wi...
Waste Spammers Time to Kill Their Return on Investment
https://www.brightball.com/articles/waste-spammers-time-to-r...
How Microsoft Became Phishing's Biggest Enabler
https://www.brightball.com/articles/how-microsoft-became-phi...