Claude just saved me from sending money to a scammer and now I feel 90 years old
I’ve been using Claude mostly for coding and summarizing boring work docs, but today it accidentally became my cyber security therapist. I got an email from what looked exactly like one of my vendors asking me to update payment info for an invoice. Same writing style, same signature, referenced a real project, everything. I was literally about to send the payment when something felt slightly off, but I couldn’t explain why. Out of curiosity I pasted the email into Claude and asked if anything looked suspicious. It immediately pointed out a bunch of manipulation tactics I completely missed, ...