Several of our observant personnel have picked up that a very suspicious e-mail is making the rounds at the moment.
The subject is “NOTIFICATION: Your 13.69% Salary Increase”.
This is a very dangerous e-mail. Clicking on the link will take you to a forged version of the SUN e-HR site. If you enter your username and password (because the site looks like the SUN e-HR site), the criminals will have been given access to your personal details on SUN e-HR. The ramifications of this will mean that the scammers will potentially be able to get details such as your banking details, ID number, place of residence, that are all stored on the SUN e-HR system. They will potentially then be able to steal your salary.
The e-mail contains the following message:
Hello,
Attached herewith are two (2) documents summarizing your April salary as reviewed for a 13.69% merit increase in Financial Year 2017.
This review is with immediate effect starting Friday April 28th Paycheque.
Deductions and bonuses are advised therein
The documents are attached below:
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Below is what the forged site looks like. The address is not a university server BUT very few people notice such details and tend to skim over them.
[ARTICLE BY David Wiles]
