Email Fraud Alert received from: Tiffany
I recently received an email with this subject line: Activate Your 15.5% UCount Reward Point 2014/11/28 and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Dear Standard Bank Customer,
Redeem your 15.5% UCount Reward point Today.
This is a Reward receipt for Invoice 1146198850 sent on 2014/10/12 from Standard Bank
ATTACHMENT is the copy of your Standard Bank Ucount Account Statement payment to your account, as requested by our Electronic System, Please confirm on your account statement and verify the approval of the Deposit amount today to process the availability of your Reward Point.
Reward Point : 15.5%
Transaction #: 1146198850
Total Reward Point Paid to Date: 15.5%
Kindly follow these steps below to verify your accounts:
1 DOWNLOAD THE ATTACHMENT provided by our Security Team.
2 Open the ATTACHMENT FILE (in your Web Browser) and fill in the required fields.
Thank you for being a valued customer.
Sincerely,
Best Regards
©2014 Standard Bank is a licensed financial services provider in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act and a registered credit provider in terms of the National Credit Act, registration number NCRCP15.
MOVING FORWARD.
The above email was sent by “Standard Bank” from this email address: ucountinstand16@standardbank.co.za
I, Tiffany, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Standard Bank”:
Thank you for rewarding me even though I don’t have a Standard Bank Account ………………..