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<\/a><\/p>\nThe SA Post Office has warned against a phishing scam which is being used to defraud South Africans.<\/p>\n
It said in a statement that this scam involves members of the public receiving an email which says that they owe customs duties.<\/p>\n
“The SA Post Office continues to receive enquiries from members of the public who receive an email stating that a package could not be delivered to them because of outstanding customs duties,” said the SA Post Office.<\/p>\n
In these emails, the address of the sender is manipulated to look as if it was actually sent by the Post Office, whereas in fact it is sent by a malicious party.<\/p>\n
“The mail contains a link that leads them to a payment page not operated by the SA Post Office, and refers to a fraudulent tracking number not issued by the Post Office,” said the SA Post Office.<\/p>\n
The Post Office said that South Africans should be aware not only that these emails are fake, the SA Post Office also does not do what the email claims.<\/p>\n
“The Post Office never charges customs fees or import duties before delivering a parcel,” said the SA Post Office.<\/p>\n
“If there are fees payable, this is done at the time when the item is actually handed over to the customer.”<\/p>\n
The Post Office has therefore stressed that South Africans do not fall for the trap that is being set by these fraudsters.<\/p>\n
“Anyone who receives an email of this nature should delete it immediately and must not respond,” it said.<\/p>\n
The SA Post Office has also provided an example of the sort of fake email that is being sent by these fraudsters.<\/p>\n
Click on the below image to view this example email.<\/p>\n
The SA Post Office has warned against a phishing scam which is being used to defraud South Africans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":144173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[417,16590,22355],"class_list":["post-378300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-phishing","tag-sa-post-office","tag-south-african-post-office-sapo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378300"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378304,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378300\/revisions\/378304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read: Watch \u2013 How to prepare your organisation for POPIA<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"