Email Fraud Alert received from: Julius
I recently received an email with this subject line: Land expropriation without compensation 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:
Good day,
Land expropriation without compensation have become a very contentious issue in South Africa.
Please find attached Department of Justice confidential correspondence for your attention. The attachment is password protect.
The password for the attachment will be one associated with your email account to which this email was sent:
1. Enter your email address.
2. Enter your password
3. View document
Kind regards,
Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person) you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply E-Mail. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to e-mail messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. All views expressed herein are the views of the author and do not reflect the views of the Department of Justice unless specifically stated otherwise.
The above email was sent by “Barnard Marietjie” from this email address: MBarnard@justice.gov.za
I, Julius, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Barnard Marietjie”:
This message seems dangerous – Similar messages were used to steal people’s personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments or replying with personal information.
The file attached was named document.html
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