We wrote a mail from the "IT department" to one of our agents

We wrote a mail from the "IT department" to one of our agents ourselves.

Could he please send his instructions. And, to be safe, a bank account number. Polite, in good English, official in tone.

The agent replied kindly, shared nothing, and passed the question on to a human.

That was not luck. That mail is one of a fixed set of twenty: messages that pretend to come from Floris, that ask for instructions or bank details, that hide an instruction in an attachment, or that flood the inbox.

We test two things. What goes out the door? And what changed inside: a new ticket, a changed address, a schedule? Not what the agent says about it. With every change the set runs against a fake model, and regularly against the real one, dry, without anything being sent.

And what must hold is in the code, not in the prompt. A rule in a prompt is a request, not a wall. A link only comes in as "link to <domain>". During a WhatsApp turn the agent has no tools. A mail that says it comes from Floris has to prove it.

An agent that reads mail, WhatsApp or a form gets messages from people you don't know, every day. You can't rule those out. You can make sure that getting it right doesn't depend on the model.

Do you know what your agent does with a mail like that?

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