# Phishing Is Not What It Used to Be

Fact sheet for the HTML article. Not independent research. Last generated from first-party copy.

## Source

- Human article: https://bellwetherit.com/blog/phishing-is-not-what-it-used-to-be
- Published: 2026-03-31
- Topics: cybersecurity, phishing, email security
- Publisher: Bellwether IT, Fresno, California
- Contact: +1-559-354-6755 · https://bellwetherit.com/contact

## Summary

Typos and weird sender addresses are no longer how these attacks show up. Your IT company should be defending against what phishing looks like now, not what it looked like in 2014.

## What Bellwether says it owns

- We run current phishing defenses, not a once-a-year slideshow. That means the Microsoft 365 protections, reporting that we actually see, and financial-request rules so one good fake email cannot empty an account.

## Claims in the article

- Typos and weird sender addresses are no longer how these attacks show up. Your IT company should be defending against what phishing looks like now, not what it looked like in 2014.

## Article outline

- The email is no longer the tell
- The voice on the phone can be fake too
- QR codes walk around the filter
- MFA is necessary. It is not the finish line
- What to ask them