Evan Andreou Posted February 10, 2010 Share Last week my wife gets a call from 'Albert from SARS' as a courtesy to confirm that she has received her refund of R6900. Mrs W tells the helpful call centre dude she doesn't have internet and will check at the bank. 'Albert' says he'll phone at 12h00 to confirm. Mrs W checks to find a deposit of R69000 made ( any guesses where this is headed). 'Albert' phones at 12h05 (when has a government employee ever phoned when they say). Mrs W says will he give her his number as she hasn't been to the bank; he gives her the SARS call centre no and his cell (to help her finalise the query). Numbnut doesn't bargain on the fact that the missus owns a nursery school an about a third of the parents work for SARS. Needless to say she doesn't all, neither does he and the deposited cheque hopped sky high Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Andreou Posted February 10, 2010 Share SARS doesn't call to confirm deposits and don't use cheques. Be careful folks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Lizard Posted February 10, 2010 Share With what will they come up next!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Andreou Posted February 10, 2010 Share If these punks focussed their creativity legitimately, imagine the possibilities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudsimus Posted February 10, 2010 Share You'll be surprised to know how high their sucess rate is. I've got a family member working at a bank and she says they catch suckers with scams like these everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuxstir Posted February 10, 2010 Share I've been getting a e-mail for absa.. supposedly telling me that i've have poeple trying to gain access to my account.. and to please follow the link to confirm my account... i ignored this series of e-mails... now my college has recieved the same e-mail... and he doesnt even have a absa account so please be warned of this one too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ the Expat Posted February 10, 2010 Share Wouldn't it have been awsome if the cheque cleared??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyr249 Posted February 10, 2010 Share The ABSA confirmation emails I think are an internal ABSA scam. My grandfather is with ABSA and my mother and uncle do his banking for him. Everytime they log in to ABSA they get one of those emails. Of course it just gets deleted everytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackes Posted February 10, 2010 Share My brother in law had a guy phoning him about a deposit of 30K odd he mistakebly made into their business account.  Ever seen a "eft-transfer" bounce two days later . Good he was prepared and told the guy sorry to hear about your problem, if it is sill in my account after 7 days I will refund it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudsimus Posted February 10, 2010 Share My brother in law had a guy phoning him about a deposit of 30K odd he mistakebly made into their business account.  Ever seen a "eft-transfer" bounce two days later . Good he was prepared and told the guy sorry to hear about your problem' date=' if it is sill in my account after 7 days I will refund it....[/quote']  But if its a eft surely you can withdraw it if it shows on your acount? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minion Posted February 10, 2010 Share  The ABSA confirmation emails I think are an internal ABSA scam. My grandfather is with ABSA and my mother and uncle do his banking for him. Everytime they log in to ABSA they get one of those emails. Of course it just gets deleted everytime.Have they reported it to ABSA? The banks are usually quite proactive with regards to these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spud Posted February 10, 2010 Share I get 3 of the ABSA emails a day and don't even have an account with them. I have also recieved the SARS eamil this week....and I have won the Canadian Lotto (7x since last Monday), the UK, Irish, and what I think could be a Nigerian one as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclingfan Posted February 10, 2010 Share Also got the Absa mail clicked on the link put in a lot of 9 for the account nr. and entered f@#&*&f as the password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minion Posted February 10, 2010 Share In the last 4 days my Gmail spam folder has accumulated 13 emails from 'ABSA'. That's more than the number of emails trying to sell me Viagra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASTANA Posted February 10, 2010 Share  I get 3 of the ABSA emails a day and don't even have an account with them. I have also recieved the SARS eamil this week....and I have won the Canadian Lotto (7x since last Monday)' date=' the UK, Irish, and what I think could be a Nigerian one as well. [/quote'] you think your lucky ? I might have beaten you in lotto wins  Imagine you that luck  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackes Posted February 10, 2010 Share  My brother in law had a guy phoning him about a deposit of 30K odd he mistakebly made into their business account.  Ever seen a "eft-transfer" bounce two days later . Good he was prepared and told the guy sorry to hear about your problem' date=' if it is sill in my account after 7 days I will refund it....[/quote']  But if its a eft surely you can withdraw it if it shows on your acount?That is how cleaver they get it seems, he pulled his statements from internet banking and it looked exactly like it was a eft transfer, don't know how they did that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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