Email Fraud Alert received from: Thabo
I recently received an email with this subject line: Amazing Easter Deals On Smartphones,Cameras and Lenses 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:
Hi,
We have special deal for you this month on all our products, checkout our products online http://www.sadeals.wozaonline.co.za
CONTACT DETAILS
Landline (+27) 0530040094
Hotline: (+27) 0710650313
Fax Number: 0867266022
Email: enquiry.sadeals@gmail.com
Website: http://www.sadeals.wozaonline.co.za
WE PROMISE TO GIVE YOU THE BEST FOR A LONG TERM BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
The above email was sent by “Sa Deals” from this email address: enquiry.sadeals@gmail.com
I, Thabo, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Sa Deals”:
I get mad when I see someone mangle the official abbreviation of South Africa to Sa and not SA.
That aside I seem to recall a similar outfit with similar below cost deals that never delivered the goods PLUS my Gmail account says; “Be careful with this message. This message may not have been sent by: enquiry.sadeals@gmail.com. Similar messages were used to steal people’s personal information.”
Personally I would swap the words ‘personal information’ with the word ‘money’.