Email Fraud Alert received from: ABSA
I recently received an email with this subject line: Reminder: EFT Credit Transfer Notice which I believe to be an attempt at defrauding me.
The full contents of the e-mail appear below:
EFT Transfer Notice Reminder!
Valued Clients,
You have a pending EFT payment selected for your account. We are unable to process this payment to your account as your approval is required to authorize the credit to reflect in your account, Please approve the payment to receive your incoming EFT deposit, follow the instructions below to approve your payments.
Please ensure to enter security RVN numbers sent to your cellphone Number to approve this transfer, failure to do so will reverse this payment.
Please download attached encrypted zipped statement. We have encrypted your account statement in a secure zip folder which can be downloaded directly from our database, download the zip folder, save or open on your computer, you will find your statement encrypted ABSA_Mobile-Statement_2012-03-19, double-click to open now from our mobile website and be automatically logged into your account to approve your payments.
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Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this action may have caused.
Thank you for banking with us.
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The above email was sent by ABSA from this email address: ibsupports@absa.co.za