BEWARE! SARS phishing scam

[Saltex]

Hi guys just want to warn people out there what looks to me as a phishing scam, I just received this email, and it looked dodge from the start so just want to warn people out there.

 

[AlmightyBender]

Yep this one has been doing the rounds for a while now. SARS will never ask you to log into your bank account because they already have your bank account details. Eish I feel sorry for people done in by this.

 

[Saltex]

Yep this one has been doing the rounds for a while now. SARS will never ask you to log into your bank account because they already have your bank account details. Eish I feel sorry for people done in by this.

Its really easy to fall into this trap, not cool, I was like woohoo, and then like wait a minute, then sad face

 

[supersunbird]

SARS would want you to log onto e-filing.

 

[AlmightyBender]

LOL at the report suspicious activity button. Please try and click that and see what happens :twisted:

 

[Saltex]

LOL at the report suspicious activity button. Please try and click that and see what happens :twisted:

"link cannot be found" rofl, but the 1st thing that gives it away is the quality of the icons, everything looks blurry, like the print screened and then the images were badly compressed.

 

[Saltex]

and how the standard bank logo is squashed.

 

[akescpt]

the email i clicked through took me to a sars site that looked like the real deal. just the adress was fake. nank pages was so real. lots of details. forwarded it to the bank. who knows what they did with it.

 

[MJ INC]

Lol got this a couple of days ago but checked the email properties and noticed it went through Latvia.

 

[Cius]

I got this email yesterday. Immediately recognized it as a scam as they had a link to follow in the email and the formatting was a bit funny. I went to my sars e-filing page from my bookmark and as expected nothing from SARS. They seem to be pushing this one again right now though. Anyways, here is me wishing I could punch a scammer across the internet.

 

[patrick]

Friend of mine fell for it and was taken for R245k. There's a long thread somewhere here.

 

[Celine]

i was reading an article in the YOU magazine about the many scams people are being taken for. especially the one with the cell phone where you get the phone call and no one talks when you get the call. eventually when they start sending you rude messages until you switch your phone off and that's when your SIM card is swopped. they want you to switch your phone off that's why they start with the phone calls and no one answers and the rude messages.

 

[Celine]

there must be someone out there with the brains who can build some program that will stop this nonsense from happening.

 

[Park@82]

Why would SARS want you to log onto internet banking? Like we need to confirm something on internet banking when receiving payment

 

[KevRSA]

Got a scam email from SARS saying that I have a return and that I should click the link and enter my account details to receive my money.

Honestly it's like they don't even try to be original anymore.