FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION-FROM THE OFFICE OF HONORABLE MINISTER OF FINANCE.

Email Fraud Alert received from: Julius

I recently received an email with this subject line: FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION-FROM THE OFFICE OF HONORABLE MINISTER OF FINANCE. 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:

Attention,
I write in respect of a fund brought to the department of National Treasury earlier today from Reserve bank under your name.
From the reports contained in the file having your information attached to the fund, the fund was supposed to be transferred to you from Reserve bank, but was not due to some reasons that were not mentioned in the file.
The fund is 9.5m USD. Are you aware of the fund?
This notification stands as the first and final notice to you for you to claim your fund and after 5 working days of this notification, if I do not hear from you, I will have no option than to declare the fund government’s fund.

Please re-confirm the following details;

1, Your full name and address.
2, Your age and occupation.
3, Your cell phone number.
Revert back to me as soon as get this email, so that we can process the release your fund to you.
Yours Sincerely.
Pravin Gordhan
Honorable Minister of Finance,
Republic of South Africa.

The above email was sent by “Pravin Gordhan” from this email address: praving@treasury.gov.za

I, Julius, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Pravin Gordhan”:

Dear ‘Pravin’

Do me a favour rather send the money to jzuma@presidency.gov.za and tell him that he can use the R150 Million odd towards Nkaaandla