The latest in the phishing world!
Yesterday we received yet another email purporting to be from Barclays bank, requiring the customer to update their personal information, due to an error in upgrading the security software.
The interesting part of this email was the level of processing required by the phisherman - in the header of the email, the the recipient’s email address was to ‘firstname’@xxx, which is the usual. But in the main body of the email, the display name was ‘Dear firstname lastname’. In most phishing emails received, a salutaion does appear at the beginning of the mail, and if one is present it is the firstname or username of the recipient.
The little extras put in by the phisherman, constantly improves the ‘reality’ of the mail.