Spear Phishing as it is known is a highly effective method of Identity Theft or malware delivery. In one fund I worked at we had a 67% success rate a week after telling staff it was happening and that they shouldn’t open it.
In this case “Almost everybody who received the email took the bait,” a government source in Paris told the Daily Telegraph.
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