Paid $30 for a password manager and it saved my bank account

I spent $30 on a year of Bitwarden after ignoring it forever. Last week I got a scam email that looked exactly like my streaming service asking me to login. Normally I'd click the link in a panic, but the password manager wouldn't autofill because the URL was wrong. That pause made me check the address and it was some random .ru domain. If I'd clicked I would have given them my credit card details for sure. Has anyone else caught a phish just because your password manager refused to work?

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grant.jade4d agoTop Commenter

My buddy almost fell for a fake PayPal email but his manager saved him like that too.

barbaraschmidt4d ago

Wait, did his manager literally catch him right before he hit send on that PayPal link or was it more of a training moment after the fact? Because those fake PayPal emails are getting scary good lately, I've seen ones with legit looking logos and even your real name in the greeting. The clever ones will say something like "unusual login attempt" and rush you to click before you think. Having someone else double check before you act is honestly the best defense, especially if you're tired or distracted.