Email Fraud Alert received from: Undisclosed Recipient
I recently received an email with this subject line: ABSA Instant Accounting Scheduled Report and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
Undisclosed Recipient has the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent message:
This is one that slipped past two spam boxes and is probably worthy of being flagged as “highly probable to be clicked on by a genuine ABSA account holder”
The warning signs are:
‘undisclosed recipient’,
Who the F are Instant Solutions?
The attached was an HTML file – very naughty and
I don’t have an ABSA account
The full contents of the e-mail appear below:
to undisclosed recipients
Attached herewith is your financial report from Instant Solutions, that has been scheduled for automatic processing and e-mailing to your e-mail address.
Please double click to open the attached file,
The above email was sent by “ABSA Bank” from this email address: alert@absa.co.za