{"id":12197,"date":"2017-06-12T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T09:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2017-06-19T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T08:49:39","slug":"sars-phishing-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2017\/06\/sars-phishing-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]SARS phishing e-mail[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p>Take note that a phishing e-mail promising a SARS payback is circulating on campus. Below is an example of the e-mail sent from a legitimate looking @sars.gov e-mail address with a web page attached which the receiver should click on and complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please <strong>do not click on the <\/strong>html<strong>\u00a0file or enter any personal information.<\/strong> SARS would contact you via SMS if (in the unlikely event) they want to pay you money. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also look out for the telltale signs of a phishing e-mail below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Addressed to a generic name &#8211; &#8220;Dear Taxpayer&#8221;. SARS would at least include your full name and tax reference number.<\/li>\n<li>Grammar, spelling or punctuation errors.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>SARS won&#8217;t ask you to complete any forms. They already have your information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Dear Taxpayer,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After calculations of last year annual fiscal activities,we realised that you are eligible to receive a Tax refund of R9,250.75. please download the attached Tax refund form REFUNDSARS.html and complete the process of your Tax refund. Note:the refund will take 48hours to reflect in your account.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>South Africa Revenue Services (SARS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tom Moyane Commissioner<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en] Take note that a phishing e-mail promising a SARS payback is circulating on campus. Below is an example of the e-mail sent from a legitimate looking @sars.gov e-mail address with a web page attached which the receiver should click on and complete.\u00a0 Please do not click on the html\u00a0file or enter any personal information. [&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":[20381,29229,40411],"class_list":["post-12197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-security-2","tag-phishing","tag-sars","tag-sars-e-mail"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 07:09:51","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\/12197","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=12197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions\/12198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}