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The SABC slogan goes: \u201cPay your TV licence. It\u2019s the right thing to do\u201d or something to that effect. Falling for this phishing scam, will NOT be the right thing to do.<\/p>\n
This phishing scam from the \u201cSABC\u201d about payment of your TV Licence, is very clever as it uses a so-called encrypted-PDF to capture data like the victim’s ID Number, Passport Number or Company Registration number. Once the data is captured, it asks you for banking account details etc. to do the \u201cpayment\u201d for a TV Licence. The data is captured by the PDF, which is then sent to a server controlled by\u00a0the criminals, who will use it to defraud them of their money.<\/p>\n
This is what the phishing email looks like (with the dangerous parts removed):<\/p>\n
From:<\/strong> forged_address@lettersonline.co.za<\/a> [mailto:forged_address@lettersonline.co.za<\/a>] <\/em> Subject:<\/strong> SABC requires you to make payment on your TV license account<\/em><\/p>\n Hi, <\/em> The password for the attachment will be one of the following three options: <\/em> Kind Regards<\/em> The PDF attachment will ask you for a password if you open it. \u00a0Do not open or enter any details on this PDF.\u00a0The SABC will never send you an email with a link or attached file to demand that you pay your licence. Neither will they send an unbranded mail or with no personalised salutation.<\/p>\n [Article by David Wiles]<\/p>\n [:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [:en] The SABC slogan goes: \u201cPay your TV licence. It\u2019s the right thing to do\u201d or something to that effect. Falling for this phishing scam, will NOT be the right thing to do. This phishing scam from the \u201cSABC\u201d about payment of your TV Licence, is very clever as it uses a so-called encrypted-PDF to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20382,20381,29187],"tags":[20381,54484],"class_list":["post-12297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-phishing","category-security-2","tag-phishing","tag-sabc"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 01:38:59","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\/12297","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=12297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions\/12499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Sent:<\/strong> Monday, 24 July 2017 13:14<\/em>
\n To:<\/strong> University, Address <noreply@sun.ac.za<\/a>> <noreply@sun.ac.za<\/a>><\/em><\/p>\n
\n Please find attached correspondence for your attention. The attachment is password protect. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n 1. Your ID Number <\/em>
\n 2. Your Passport Number <\/em>
\n 3. Your Company Registration Number <\/em><\/p>\n
\n LettersOnline Team<\/em><\/p>\n
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