{"id":10225,"date":"2016-04-06T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T07:10:25","slug":"discovery-phishing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2016\/04\/discovery-phishing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Discovery phishing scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">Please take note that a new phishing e-mail is being distributed to SU addresses. It seems to be from Discovery, coincidentally also SU staff medical aid, but is in fact a phishing e-mail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">Do not be tempted by the promise of R1700. If Discovery owed you money, they would probably deposit the outstanding amount in your bank account directly. They wouldn&#8217;t ask you to do anything from your side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">Ignore and delete the e-mail. Do not click on the links and do not enter any personal information on the site if you do click on the link. If you&#8217;ve already done so, immediately change the relevant password to prevent your accounts from being hacked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">Hello Valued Customer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">Your\u00a0<span style=\"background: white;\">Discovery<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"background: white;\">Card<\/span>\u00a0was credited with 17000 Miles (R1700) as a reward for been a loyal customer last\u00a0 2 weeks today ( Final notice) , but you did not claim it, we are giving you another chance. Follow the instructions below:-<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">1. Click this link<a href=\"http:\/\/fakephishingaddress.co.za\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakephishingaddress.co.za\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">http:\/\/www.<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">discovery<\/span><span style=\"color: #1155cc; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">.co.za\/portal\/individual\/login<\/span><span style=\"color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakephishingaddress.co.za\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">2. Then enter\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/anotherfakephishingaddress.co.za\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">your www.<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">discovery<\/span><span style=\"color: #1155cc; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">.co.za<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Username and Password and click login<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">3.\u00a0 Update your\u00a0D<span style=\"background: white;\">iscovery<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"background: white;\">Credit Card<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0details and click update after you have completed it(\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: red;\">Note:-Do not fail to enter the full details correctly<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">Regards,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .75pt; background: white; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;\">Discovery<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">\u00a0Miles Team<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en] Please take note that a new phishing e-mail is being distributed to SU addresses. It seems to be from Discovery, coincidentally also SU staff medical aid, but is in fact a phishing e-mail. \u00a0 Do not be tempted by the promise of R1700. If Discovery owed you money, they would probably deposit the outstanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20382,29187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-security-2"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 07:09:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions\/10231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}