Email Fraud Alert received from: Edwina
I recently received an email with this subject line: Nedbank – Final Notification ! 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:
Important Message ! :-
Please note that your Nedbank online service account is about to expire due to new database
transfiguration on our system,please download the attached file to prevent account from
fraudulent activities.Your interest is our concern so you will have to bear with us for
few minutes online.
Note: If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but
to temporarily suspend your account.
Thank you for banking with us.
Copyright © Nedbank Limited 1997-2014. Nedbank Ltd Reg No 1951/000009/06. We are an authorised financial services provider. We are a registered credit provider
in terms of the National Credit Act (NCR Reg No NCRCP16).
The above email was sent by “Nedbank Limited” from this email address: ned@nedbank.co.za
I, Edwina, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Nedbank Limited”:
Ned? Really? Plus an emoticon. Really? AND your command of English grammar sucks big time.