Email has Generic Greeting

Phishing attacks always attempt to befriend you with a nice greeting or empathy.

For example, in my spam not too long ago I found a phishing email with the greeting of “Dear friend”.

I already knew this was a phishing email as in the subject line it said, “GOOD NEWS ABOUT YOUR FUNDS 21 /06/2020”.

Seeing those types of greetings should be instant red flags if you have never interacted with that contact.