{"id":13599,"date":"2010-07-08T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-08T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T08:49:00","slug":"sa-phishing-scam-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/13599-sa-phishing-scam-warning.html","title":{"rendered":"SA phishing scam warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The scam invites customers to provide their personal information with a promise of paying compensation to victims of other internet scams promising tax refunds,&#8221; the Banking Association SA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This compensation was said to come from &#8220;The Victims Redress and Compensation Funds (VRCFs)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the association&#8217;s MD Cas Coovadia confirmed that this fund did not exist.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Banking Association SA wished to distanced itself from this phishing email.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call upon all persons to be extra vigilant with their information and to disregard this email and its contents,&#8221; Coovadia said.<\/p>\n<p>Customers were reminded to always keep their personal banking details and access codes a secret.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?248065-South-African-phishing-scam-warning\">Phishing scam warning<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new phishing scam that uses the logos of the Banking Association SA and the SA Revenue Service has been uncovered, the association said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}