Email Fraud Alert received from: Les
I recently received an email with this subject line: This is a payment receipt for Invoice 1146198850 sent on 2014/09/15 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 Standard Bank Customer,
This is a payment receipt for Invoice 1146198850 sent on 2014/10/15 from Standard Bank
ATTACHMENT is the copy of your Standard Bank Account Statement payment to your account, as requested by our Electronic System, Please confirm on your account statement and verify the approval of the Deposit amount today to process the availability of your Payment.
Payment Amount:R861.46 ZA
Transaction #: 1146198850
Total Paid to Date: R861.46 ZA
Please follow these steps to verify your accounts:
1 DOWNLOAD THE ATTACHMENT provided by our Security Team.
2 Open the ATTACHMENT FILE (in your Web Browser) and fill in the required fields.
Thank you for being a valued customer.
Sincerely,
Thanks You
Best Regards
©2014 Standard Bank is a licensed financial services provider in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act and a registered credit provider in terms of the National Credit Act, registration number NCRCP15.
The above email was sent by “Standard Bank” from this email address: notificatons@standardbank.co.za
I, Les, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Standard Bank”:
An attachment named VERIFIED STANDARD BANK RECEIPT.htm accompanied the message.