Hook, Line, and Confidence: When Humans Outthink the Phish Bot
Phishing emails do not need to be brilliant. They only need to be plausible at the wrong moment. A message about a failed payment, a suspended account, or an urgent verification request arrives while someone is clearing a crowded inbox. The user is not solving a formal classification task. They are deciding whether a sentence feels wrong enough to interrupt their day. That is why phishing defense is not only a machine-learning problem. It is a judgment problem disguised as an email problem. ...