Email Fraud Alert received from: Your Majesty
I recently received an email with this subject line: Validate your Absa account on or before 29-4-2012 and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
I think the following:
First of all you create a sense of urgency in your subject and then you refer to me as “Dear Customer” – WTF!
Then you want me to download a file to log into my own accounts – what a tosser to think that I would fall for that.
And, by the way, when ABSA asked me how I would prefer to be addressed I wrote “Your Majesty” – have you any idea how warm it makes me feel to get an email that says; “Dear Your Majesty”?
The full contents of the e-mail appear below:
Dear Customer,
We hereby bring to your notice once again that the details of this Absa account has already been deleted from our database,and in a short time your Absa account may experience error which will lead to deactivation.
Download attached Absa.account.html now and be automatically logged into your accounts.
If you have any questions or would like more information, email validation.ownership@absa.co.za or call our Customer Contact Centre on 0860 11 22 44.
Sincerely,
Hendrik Mentz
Absa Bank Limited
The above email was sent by Absa Internet Banking from this email address: validation.ownership@absa.co.za