motordavid,

You're right, the correct term for this appears to be whaling. I should have noted that I learned both those terms this week

I wasn't implying that this was happening today. It's been happening over the last week or so.

What I found interesting is that they are saying that there are "... at least several thousand victims...". I feel that:
1. This shouldn't have made it through companies' firewalls (and it didn't get through ours as far as our security IT team is concerned)
2. Our "nation's top executives" should know better than to click on unknown attachments...