Email Fraud Alert received from: Florence
I recently received an email with this subject line: Public Policy Board SA – PPBSA – Mrs. Jane Ndaba 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:
From Mary Mackey
Director-General
Public Policy Board
Dear Beneficiary,
The PPBSA has investigated your fund which has been on transfer process for some period of time to your bank account.
During the last quarter of the Financial Auditing in the department, the office of the auditing and fund recovery unit, has recovered your fund at the tune of R500, 000 attached to your email, which was to be to you through bank to bank transfer.
After the auditing, the department decides that the entire fund should be paid to you as the owner and next of kin within 21 days. This decision was taking by the Board of auditors in the department and at present the fund is in the escrow account of the Public Policy Board.
Contact the payment officer on her below email urgently and request for the payment Form R-66 be forwarded to you for your payment processing without any further waste of time.
Send an email to Payment Officer
Name: Mrs. Jane Ndaba
Department: Accounts
Tel: 27 63 223 1658
Fax: 27 86 585 3562
Email: mrs.ndabajane@safrica.com
Kindly complete the payment Form R-66 and return once completed. For deceased relatives outstanding payment processing, kindly request for Form J192 Affidavit to be completed.
Regards,
Mary Mackey
Director-General
PPBSA
t: 27 63 223 1658
f: 27 86 585 3562
The above email was sent by “Send an email to Payment Officer” from this email address: ppbsa2016@outlook.com
I, Florence, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Send an email to Payment Officer”:
A quick search online for the ‘PPBSA’ reveals no such organisation. The language is typical bait and switch so beware. Attached in the ‘impressive’ logo that appears on the accompanying PDF.