Email Fraud Alert received from: Chris
I recently received an email with this subject line: Your FICA Document Account settings 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
At Standard Bank, we regularly review our customer records to ensure we have the most recent and up to date information as this is a regulatory requirement.
As we have communicated previously, our records reflect that your Bank Account recent FICA Documents need to be updated.
Linked accounts
To update your FICA Documents, Please download the attached HTML document.
If you have any questions or would like more information, email ibsupport@standardbank.co.za or call our Customer
Contact Centre on 0860 123 000 . If you are calling from outside South Africa, call +27 11 299 4701
– Your FICA Documents Account Setting.
To update your contact, Please download the attached The global structure of an HTML document – W3C FICA Document Ref #: Q7329-92-M/F
Regards
Standard Bank
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The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (Reg. No. 1962/000738/06). Authorised financial services provider. Registered credit provider (NCRCP15).
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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 “FICA-information@standardbank.co.za” from this email address: FICA-information@standardbank.co.za
I, Chris, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “FICA-information@standardbank.co.za”:
I have been receiving many of these lately but this one makes me want to say; “WTF, why would these brain dead phishers send a phishing email ASKING you to OPEN an HTML document AND still include the standard footer warning which says – Standard Bank will never send you any email or other communication asking you to update or provide confidential information about you or your account – or do they think that everyone else in the world is as brain dead as they are?”
The included document was named W3CFICA Document Q7329011.htm and takes you to the compromised sippingdreams.com domain for you to fill in your passwords etc.
WARNING: Do not open the document, simple!