Email Fraud Alert received from: Jacob
I recently received an email with this subject line: Standard Bank Account Suspension/Deactivation Notice – Message Ref. [H837M63] 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:
Dear Customer
We today suspended the following services on your account as your profile has failed to meet requirements.
Access Disabled-
Withdrawal of funds are being limited or restricted-
Limited access to telephone banking services-
Please activate your account and profile now to continue.
– Proceed to activate now and follow easy instructions – – – –
Regards
E M.Bradbury
Consultant Electronic Documents
Copyright Standard Bank Group Limited. All rights reserved.
The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (Reg. No. 1962/000738/06). Authorised financial services provider. Registered credit provider (NCRCP15).
Disclaimer and confidentiality note:
Everything in this email and any attachments relating to the official business of Standard Bank Group Limited is proprietary to the group. It is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. We do not own and endorse any other content.
The person addressed in the email is the sole authorised recipient. Please notify the sender immediately if it has unintentionally reached you and do not read disclose or use the content in any way.
Standard Bank Group cannot assume that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that it is free of errors, virus, interception or interference. For our privacy policy or information about Standard Bank Group visit our website at www.standardbank.co.za
Standard Bank will never send you any email or other communication asking you to update or provide confidential information about you or your account. If you have any doubts about the legitimacy of this email or other emails you receive claiming to be from Standard Bank please forward them to phishing@standardbank.co.za.
The above email was sent by “ibsupport” from this email address: ibsupport@standardbank.ref-con.com
I, Jacob, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “ibsupport”:
The addition of the copyright and phishing footer still doesn’t fool me I am afraid!