FI Frauds: Egg Bank, UK
A remarkably unsophisticated phishing exercise might work precisely because it isn't trying to be too clever.
Purportedly from eggbank@egg.com
Subject: One New Message
Body: [an attempt to make an inline image from the genuine Egg website appear in the e-mail fails because the html coding is wrong]
Dear customer
You have one unread message click the link below to view your message:
Click here: [the link is to an insecure directory on an unrelated website with a .de extension]
New Egg Home.
Comment: recent phishing e-mails have tended to be longer and more complex - and as a result increase the opportunity for error in grammar and spelling. This shorter message is less likely to be "broken" and therefore may be more successful.
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