Email Fraud Alert received from: Sylvester
I recently received an email with this subject line: Notice of payment 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:
Pending payment notice
You have a new uncleared payment.
Please complete below enclosed attachment with your preferred funding method
and you will be instantly credited upon confirmation.
The above email was sent by “Capitec” from this email address: capitec.cn@ccpay.za
I, Sylvester, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Capitec”:
BEWARE – attached to this ‘notofication’ is an HTML file and link to a site that has been hacked. The fake sign in is hosted on this hacked site: beyondchurch.org.uk/rrm/rrm.php