Telkom has sent out an alert which warns its subscribers about a scam which targets telkomsa.net email account holders.<\/p>\n
\u201cA fraudulent email is being sent informing telkomsa.net email account users that their account was deleted,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n
This fraudulent email requests email account holders to complete a form to continue using their account.<\/p>\n
\u201cNote this is a scam and not from Telkom,\u201d the company said, adding that people who completed the form should immediately change their email password.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe recommend assistance to identify if there has been malicious damage to your device. For more contact abuse@telkomsa.net or call 10210,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n
Criminals often target Telkom customers in their scams due to the company\u2019s prominent presence in South Africa.<\/p>\n
In a previous scam fraudsters pretended to be Telkom\u2019s CEO<\/strong><\/a> and telephonically inform customers that Telkom\u2019s banking details have changed.<\/p>\n Customers were then asked to deposit their account payments into an alternative bank account which, unknown to the customer, belonged to the fraudsters.<\/p>\n In another scam fraudsters deposited a stolen or counterfeit cheque into a customer\u2019s account.<\/p>\n Then, on a false Telkom letterhead, the fraudsters informed the customer that the initial deposit into their accounts was an erroneous refund from Telkom.<\/p>\n The customer was then advised that the deposit amount needed to be transferred back to Telkom, but the account given to them was held by the fraudsters.<\/p>\n Telkom has warned of a scam targeting telkomsa.net email account holders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":281321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-320611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320611"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320613,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320611\/revisions\/320613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: How to spot banking scams in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"