[dvirsky]

I seriously doubt it was, at least not a blanket automated attempt aimed at multiple people.

It was years ago but IIRC, there were actual names and the email was clearly between two people who knew each other personally, contained phone numbers, etc. Also, it wasn't in English, so it wasn't some automated Nigerian scam or something like that for sure.

And if someone went through the trouble of obtaining so much intel (names, phones, company titles, bank branches, etc) - makes no sense they would then get the email wrong.

Also, at most the person sending the email would gain is some business bank account number, that's probably semi public knowledge anyway, without any authentication-enabling information.

This stuff is done by fax in my country to this very day, I'm not surprised at all that such an unencrypted mail was sent.