{"id":2495,"date":"2026-09-28T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2026-09-21T05:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:52:27","slug":"ai-generated-phishing-emails-are-fooling-spam-filters-heres-how-to-stay-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/ai-generated-phishing-emails-are-fooling-spam-filters-heres-how-to-stay-protected\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Generated Phishing Emails Are Fooling Spam Filters. Here&#8217;s How to Stay Protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A message lands in an employee&#8217;s inbox from what looks exactly like a familiar vendor. The grammar is flawless, the formatting matches past correspondence, and the tone reads like it was written by someone who actually knows the business. Nothing about it feels like the clumsy, typo filled scam emails everyone learned to spot years ago. That is because it probably was not written by a person at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generative AI tools have quietly rewritten the rules of phishing. The awkward phrasing, obvious grammar mistakes, and generic greetings that once made scam emails easy to spot have largely disappeared, replaced by polished, personalized messages that slip past traditional spam filters and past even careful, well trained employees. For businesses across Long Beach, this shift means the old advice about spotting bad spelling and broken English is no longer enough on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why Traditional Spam Filters Are Losing Ground<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spam filters were built to catch patterns. They flag messages with known malicious links, suspicious attachments, mismatched sender domains, or language patterns commonly seen in mass produced scam campaigns. For years, this approach worked reasonably well because most phishing emails were generated from the same templates, reused across thousands of targets with only small variations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generative AI breaks this pattern matching approach in a few key ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every message can be uniquely written, so there is no repeated template for a filter to recognize<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grammar and spelling are consistently clean, removing one of the most reliable red flags filters and humans both relied on<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tone and formatting can be tailored to match a specific industry, company, or even an individual writing style<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Messages can reference publicly available details, making them feel personally relevant rather than generic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New variations can be generated instantly, letting attackers test and adjust faster than filter rules can be updated<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is part of a much larger shift covered in our comparison of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/ai-vs-human-hackers-how-cybersecurity-strategies-are-evolving-in-2026\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI driven cyberattacks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where automation is changing not just phishing but nearly every category of cybercrime aimed at small and mid sized businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Makes AI-Written Phishing Emails So Convincing<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A handful of specific techniques explain why these messages succeed where older scams failed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Flawless Language<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generative tools produce grammatically correct, natural sounding text by default. The broken English that used to be a dead giveaway is simply gone, removing one of the easiest tells employees were taught to look for.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Personalization at Scale<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attackers can feed publicly available information, a name, a job title, a recent company announcement, into an AI tool and generate a message that references those details naturally. This used to require real research time per target. Now it happens in seconds, for thousands of targets at once.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Matching Tone and Formatting<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI tools can mimic the writing style of a specific person or brand voice, closely matching the tone of previous legitimate emails. Combined with a spoofed or look alike domain, this creates messages that are difficult to distinguish from something a real colleague or vendor would send.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Rapid Variation<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where older phishing campaigns reused the same message thousands of times, AI lets attackers generate slightly different wording for each recipient. This defeats filters that rely on recognizing repeated, identical content across many inboxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>The Business Risk Behind This Shift<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The financial and operational consequences of a successful phishing attempt have not changed, only the odds of it succeeding have gone up. A convincing AI written message asking for a wire transfer, a password reset, or a fake invoice payment carries the same downstream risk as any other business email compromise attempt, just with a much higher chance of getting past both software and human scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A detailed look at what these incidents actually cost once fraud, downtime, and recovery are factored in is available in our breakdown of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/the-real-cost-of-a-cyberattack-on-a-long-beach-small-business-and-how-to-avoid-it\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">real cost cyberattacks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> inflict on businesses that assumed their filters had it covered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2497\" src=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/27-2-1024x535.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/27-2-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/27-2-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/27-2-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/27-2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Industries Facing the Sharpest Increase in Risk<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI generated phishing does not target every business equally. Industries that regularly handle financial transactions, sensitive data, or high value client relationships tend to see the most convincing and frequent attempts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accounting and tax preparation firms are already a favorite target during filing season, and AI written messages have made these attempts noticeably harder to catch, a concern detailed in our article on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/ransomware-is-targeting-long-beach-accounting-firms-is-your-client-data-protected\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ransomware protection tips<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the broader threats accounting firms face year round.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Our related piece on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/why-cpa-firms-in-long-beach-need-ai-ready-cybersecurity-before-the-next-tax-season\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CPA firm cybersecurity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> covers what firms should be doing differently as these tools become more common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Law firms handle time sensitive, high value communication involving settlements and client funds, making<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/how-law-firms-can-protect-client-confidentiality-with-modern-managed-it-services\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">law firm data security<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a growing priority as AI written impersonation attempts become harder to distinguish from real client requests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healthcare practices exchange billing, scheduling, and patient related messages constantly, and a convincing AI written phishing attempt can lead to both financial loss and regulatory exposure, a challenge outlined in our piece on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/the-biggest-healthcare-it-security-challenges-facing-medical-practices-in-2026\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">healthcare IT security<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for medical practices navigating 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engineering and design firms face a similar risk when it comes to protecting proprietary information, a concern explored in our article on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/how-engineering-firms-can-secure-intellectual-property-in-an-ai-driven-world\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">engineering IP security<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in an increasingly AI driven landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Construction companies coordinating large subcontractor and supplier payments by email are also seeing more convincing attempts, a pattern discussed in our overview of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/why-construction-companies-are-replacing-reactive-it-with-proactive-technology-support\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">construction technology support<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> moving away from reactive, unmonitored setups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finance and insurance providers face additional pressure as underwriting standards evolve, a shift detailed in our summary of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/what-finance-and-insurance-companies-should-know-about-new-cyber-insurance-requirements\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cyber insurance requirements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for 2026, many of which now specifically ask about phishing resistance and email filtering capability.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why Employee Training Alone Is No Longer Enough<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For years, the standard advice was to train employees to spot spelling errors, awkward phrasing, and generic greetings. That advice has not disappeared, but it has become far less reliable on its own, since AI written messages routinely pass every one of those checks. Training still matters, but it needs to shift toward different signals:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verifying unusual requests through a second channel, such as a phone call, rather than trusting the email alone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slowing down on any message that creates urgency around payment, credentials, or account changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Checking the actual sender address and domain closely, not just the display name<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Treating well written, professional sounding emails with the same scrutiny as poorly written ones<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reporting suspicious messages even when nothing feels obviously wrong, since AI written attempts often only reveal themselves through small inconsistencies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our broader guide on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/cybersecurity-tips-every-long-beach-small-business-should-follow-in-2026\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cybersecurity best practices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> walks through how to build these habits into daily routines without overwhelming staff with constant warnings, a balance covered further in our article on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/cybersecurity-fatigue-is-real-how-businesses-can-simplify-security-without-sacrificing-protection\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">security fatigue solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for teams that feel bombarded by alerts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Modern Filtering Technology Built to Catch AI-Written Threats<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because AI generated phishing defeats pattern based filtering, modern email security tools have shifted toward behavior based and context aware detection instead. These systems look beyond spelling and known bad templates, analyzing:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sending patterns and relationship history between sender and recipient<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Subtle domain irregularities, including look alike characters and newly registered domains<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unusual requests involving payment, credentials, or account changes, regardless of how well written the message is<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Login and access anomalies tied to the sender&#8217;s actual account, when available<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cross referencing message content against known impersonation and business email compromise patterns<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This kind of layered, intelligence driven filtering reflects the broader shift covered in our overview of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/the-new-era-of-managed-intelligence-providers-what-it-means-for-long-beach-businesses\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">managed intelligence providers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where security tools increasingly rely on behavioral analysis rather than static rule sets that AI generated content can easily slip past.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Fighting AI With AI<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same generative technology fueling more convincing phishing attempts is also being used defensively. Modern security platforms use machine learning to analyze massive volumes of email traffic, flagging subtle anomalies a human reviewer or a static filter would miss entirely. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our discussion of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/ai-vs-human-hackers-how-cybersecurity-strategies-are-evolving-in-2026\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI driven cyberattacks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> covers both sides of this arms race, and our look at how<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/how-ai-powered-automation-is-transforming-it-help-desk-services-for-smbs\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI powered automation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is reshaping IT help desk operations shows how the same underlying technology is being repurposed to strengthen day to day defenses rather than just accelerate attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This shift is part of a broader pattern across many industries, where the practical use of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/how-ai-is-helping-long-beach-businesses-improve-efficiency-and-cut-costs\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI is no longer optional<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for businesses that want to keep pace, whether that means improving efficiency internally or strengthening the defenses that protect client relationships from increasingly convincing scams.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>A Realistic Walkthrough of an AI-Written Phishing Attempt<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture a finance manager who receives an email that appears to come from a long standing vendor. The subject line references an actual invoice number from a recent project, the tone matches previous correspondence almost exactly, and the message politely explains that the vendor&#8217;s bank recently changed and asks for updated payment routing details before the next invoice is processed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nothing about the email trips a spelling check. Nothing about the formatting looks unusual. The attacker, using a generative AI tool, pulled the vendor&#8217;s public writing style from old newsletters and press releases, referenced a real invoice number found in a prior data leak, and generated a message tailored specifically to this one recipient in a matter of seconds. A traditional spam filter, built to catch known bad patterns and clumsy language, has nothing obvious to flag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only real warning sign is the request itself, a banking change delivered by email with no phone confirmation. This is exactly why verification habits matter more than ever, since the writing quality of a message can no longer be trusted as a reliable signal on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Common Myths About AI-Generated Phishing<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Myth: perfect grammar means a message is safe. Reality: flawless writing is now the default for scam emails, not a sign of legitimacy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Myth: our spam filter already blocks this. Reality: most default filtering was built for repeated, templated scams, not uniquely generated messages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Myth: only large companies are targeted with this level of sophistication. Reality: generative tools make personalized attacks cheap enough to use against businesses of any size<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Myth: employees who have completed security training will always catch these. Reality: even well trained staff struggle when the usual red flags are missing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Myth: this is a temporary trend that will fade. Reality: AI writing tools are becoming more accessible and more capable, not less, making this a long term shift rather than a passing spike<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Why Leadership Should Treat This as a Strategic Issue<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phishing defense has traditionally been treated as a technical, IT level concern. The rise of AI generated attacks changes that calculus, since the financial and reputational exposure now touches every department that handles payments, client communication, or sensitive data. Leadership teams that fold phishing resistance into broader planning conversations, rather than leaving it entirely to IT, tend to respond faster and more effectively when an incident does occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This shift mirrors a broader pattern across the region, where technology decisions that once sat purely with IT departments are increasingly discussed at the leadership level as competitive and risk factors in their own right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2498\" src=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/28-1-1024x535.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/28-1-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/28-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/28-1-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2026\/09\/28-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Building a Layered Defense Against AI-Written Phishing<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No single tool fully solves this problem. A layered approach gives a business the best chance of catching an attempt that slips past any one layer on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advanced email filtering configured through<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/cybersecurity\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cybersecurity services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that goes beyond basic spam detection to include behavior based analysis and domain verification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identity based verification for any request involving payment or account changes, an approach explained further in our article on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/why-identity-first-security-is-replacing-traditional-network-security-models\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">identity first security<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> models.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Endpoint protection across every device employees use to read and send email, covered in our overview of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/how-smart-endpoint-management-is-helping-businesses-secure-remote-teams\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">endpoint security management<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for hybrid and remote teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secure access controls for employees working outside the office, supported through the framework described in our guide to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/why-secure-access-service-edge-sase-is-becoming-a-must-have-for-hybrid-workforces\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">secure access edge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> technology for hybrid workforces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ongoing monitoring through<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/network-management\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">network management solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that can flag unusual activity tied to a compromised account after a successful phishing attempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regular data backups through<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/data-backup\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">data backup solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> so a business can recover quickly if a phishing email leads to a broader compromise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A documented incident response plan, developed as part of a broader<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/the-growing-role-of-cyber-resilience-in-modern-business-it-strategies\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cyber resilience strategy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, so staff know exactly what to do the moment a suspicious message is identified.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Signs an Email Might Still Be an AI-Written Scam<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even flawless writing tends to leave a few small inconsistencies behind. Watch for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A reply to address that does not match the sender address shown<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A domain with a subtle misspelling or unfamiliar extension<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Requests to change payment details or credentials through email alone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urgency paired with a request that bypasses normal approval steps<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A slightly unusual phrase or reference that does not quite match how the real sender typically communicates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reviewing these signals regularly, alongside a broader<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/what-every-long-beach-business-should-know-about-network-security-in-2026\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">network security essentials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> review, helps catch what filtering software alone might miss. Our practical<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/how-to-prevent-cyberattacks-a-practical-guide-for-long-beach-businesses\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prevent cyberattacks guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> covers additional day to day habits worth building into a team&#8217;s routine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What to Do the Moment a Suspicious Message Is Identified<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do not click any links or open attachments in the message<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verify any payment or account change request by phone, using a number already on file, not one provided in the email<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report the message to your IT provider immediately so filtering rules and monitoring can be adjusted<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warn colleagues who may have received a similar message<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Document the incident, including headers and timestamps, for future reference<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Businesses without a dedicated internal security team often lean on a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/managed-it-services\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">managed IT services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> partner during exactly this kind of moment, since fast, correct action in the first hour makes a significant difference in limiting damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Role of Agentic AI in Both Attack and Defense<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As AI tools become more autonomous, some are now capable of carrying out multi step tasks with minimal human input, drafting a phishing email, researching a target, and even adjusting the message based on how a recipient responds. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our explainer on the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/what-long-beach-smbs-need-to-know-about-the-rise-of-agentic-ai-in-business-operations\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rise of agentic AI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in business operations covers what this shift means for both attackers and the defensive tools built to counter them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Business leaders weighing how to respond to this shift often benefit from a broader strategic conversation rather than a single tool purchase. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our article on how Long Beach<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/ai-and-it-strategy-how-long-beach-coos-are-turning-technology-into-a-competitive-advantage\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IT strategy leadership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is adapting to these changes covers how executives are folding AI risk into overall technology planning rather than treating it as a standalone concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Keeping Communication Channels Consistent<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As phishing awareness grows, some attackers have started shifting toward text messages and spoofed caller ID to reach the same targets through channels that feel less scrutinized than email. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Businesses that centralize voice and messaging through<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/unified-communications\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unified communications systems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gain more consistent visibility across these channels, rather than leaving them as an unmonitored gap next to a well filtered inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pairing this with consistent<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/productivity-applications\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">productivity software solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> licensing and properly configured<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/cloud-services\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cloud computing services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ensures every employee has access to the same filtering and security features, rather than a patchwork of protection depending on which account or device happens to be in use.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Where Compliance Fits Into the Conversation<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For regulated industries, a successful phishing attempt is not just a financial problem, it can trigger reporting obligations depending on what data was exposed or what an employee was tricked into sharing. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A structured<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/compliance\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">compliance solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> review helps businesses understand exactly where email filtering and phishing defense fit into their broader regulatory picture, a topic also covered in our detailed compliance overview for<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/top-it-challenges-facing-long-beach-businesses-in-2026-and-how-to-solve-them\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">top IT challenges 2026<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> facing Long Beach businesses this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Getting the underlying technology sourced and configured correctly also matters. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Businesses working through<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/it-procurement\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IT procurement services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> avoid the common trap of layering on overlapping tools, while ongoing<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/it-guidance\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strategic IT guidance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> keeps phishing defense aligned with the rest of a company&#8217;s broader plans for<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/blog\/how-long-beach-organizations-are-modernizing-their-it-infrastructure\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">modernizing IT infrastructure<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the business grows.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Getting Started With Stronger Phishing Protection<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most businesses only discover their filtering is behind the curve after an employee nearly falls for a convincing message, or worse, actually does. A quick technical review can usually determine, within a day, exactly how well current filtering tools are holding up against AI generated threats and where the gaps are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CMIT Solutions of Long Beach helps businesses across every client facing industry, from law firms to healthcare practices to engineering companies, upgrade their email filtering and employee training before a convincing AI written scam reaches the wrong inbox at the wrong time. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Long Beach IT provider<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> working with companies of every size, CMIT Solutions of Long Beach treats modern phishing defense as a core part of everyday IT support, not an optional add-on layered in after something goes wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are not certain your current filtering can catch a well written, AI generated scam, do not wait to find out the hard way.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/long-beach-ca-1217\/contact-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schedule a consultation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to get a clear picture of where your email security stands today and what it takes to close the gap.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;background: #f4f8fa;padding: 60px 20px;font-family: Segoe UI,Arial,sans-serif\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;color: #000;font-size: 40px;line-height: 1.2;font-weight: 800;margin: 0 0 45px\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 1100px;margin: 0 auto\">\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">1. What makes AI generated phishing emails different from older scam emails?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">They are grammatically correct, personalized, and often match the tone of a real sender, removing the spelling and formatting mistakes that used to make scams easy to spot.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">2. Can spam filters still catch AI written phishing emails?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Traditional pattern based filters struggle with them, since each message can be uniquely written. Modern behavior based filtering tools are better equipped to catch these attempts.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">3. Why do these emails get past even careful employees?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Because the usual red flags, poor grammar and generic greetings, are no longer reliable indicators, so employees need to focus on different signals instead.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">4. Is AI generated phishing more expensive for attackers to produce?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">No, generative tools make it faster and cheaper to produce large volumes of unique, convincing messages compared to manually writing each one.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">5. What industries are most at risk from this trend?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Accounting, legal, healthcare, engineering, and any business that regularly handles financial transactions or sensitive data by email face elevated risk.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">6. Should employee training change because of AI generated phishing?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Yes, training should shift from spotting obvious mistakes toward verifying unusual requests through a second channel and scrutinizing sender details closely.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">7. Can AI tools help defend against this kind of phishing too?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Yes, many modern email security platforms use machine learning to detect subtle behavioral anomalies that static filters and human reviewers would miss.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">8. What is behavior based email filtering?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">It is a detection method that analyzes sending patterns, relationship history, and unusual requests rather than relying only on known bad templates or keywords.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">9. Are small businesses targeted by AI generated phishing?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Yes, often more than larger companies, since smaller businesses are less likely to have advanced filtering tools or dedicated security staff in place.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">10. Does multi factor authentication help against this type of phishing?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Yes, it significantly reduces the impact of a successful phishing attempt by preventing a stolen password alone from granting access to an account.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">11. Can AI generated emails perfectly mimic a specific person&#8217;s writing style?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">They can come very close, especially when trained on publicly available writing samples, which is why relying on tone alone is no longer a safe verification method.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">12. What should an employee do if an email feels slightly off but looks otherwise legitimate?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">They should verify the request through a separate channel, such as a phone call, rather than replying to or acting on the email directly.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">13. Is it still worth training employees if filters are supposed to catch these emails?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Yes, no filter catches everything, and trained employees serve as an important second layer of defense against messages that slip through.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">14. How often should email filtering settings be reviewed?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">At least once a year, and immediately after any notable increase in phishing attempts or after adopting new email or communication platforms.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">15. Can AI generated phishing target text messages and phone calls too?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Yes, similar techniques are increasingly used for spoofed caller ID and text based scams, not just email.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">16. Does this mean email is no longer a safe way to communicate with clients?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Email remains a core communication tool, but it needs to be paired with verification habits and modern filtering rather than assumed to be automatically trustworthy.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">17. What is business email compromise, and how does it relate to AI phishing?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">It is a scheme where an attacker manipulates financial transactions through impersonation, and AI generated messages make the impersonation stage significantly more convincing.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">18. Can a small business afford advanced AI aware email filtering?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Yes, many modern filtering tools are bundled into existing business email platforms or available as an affordable add on through a managed IT provider.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0 0 18px;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">19. How quickly can a business improve its phishing defenses?<span style=\"position: absolute;right: 0;color: #f46048;font-size: 28px;line-height: 1;font-weight: bold\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 24px;color: #444;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.7\">Initial improvements, such as filtering upgrades and staff guidance, can often be put in place within a matter of days.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"width: 100%;background: #fff;border-radius: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 0 28px;overflow: hidden\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer;position: relative;padding: 24px 48px 24px 0;font-size: 19px;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 600;color: #111\">20. 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