{"id":13580,"date":"2019-01-31T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T08:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=13580"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:12:26","slug":"phishing-attempt-sars-efiling-letter-notification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2019\/01\/phishing-attempt-sars-efiling-letter-notification\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Phishing attempt: &#8220;SARS eFiling Letter notification&#8221;[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">An email with the subject <em>&#8220;SARS eFiling Letter Notification&#8221;<\/em> was sent from a staff email to staff and students on campus. The email asks you to click on a link to download your SARS documents <\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">(See example below)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><strong>This is not a legitimate SARS email, but a phishing attempt from a compromised sun email account. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">SARS will never ask you to provide any personal information by means of email. By clicking on links and providing your information, you give criminals access to your personal information and your accounts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">If you clicked on the link in this phishing email, immediately change your password on www.sun.ac.za\/password. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">For enquiries contact the IT Service Desk by <a href=\"https:\/\/servicedesk.sun.ac.za\/jira\/servicedesk\/customer\/portal\/6\/user\/login\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">logging a request<\/span><\/a> or calling 808 4367. More information on phishing is available on our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/en\/?s=phishing\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">blog<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ITStellenUni\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"616\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color: #666766; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admin.sun.ac.za\/Infoteg\/cybersecurity-alert\/printscreens\/frick.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.sun.ac.za\/Infoteg\/cybersecurity-alert\/printscreens\/frick_small.jpg\" alt=\"Click for a larger version.\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en] An email with the subject &#8220;SARS eFiling Letter Notification&#8221; was sent from a staff email to staff and students on campus. The email asks you to click on a link to download your SARS documents (See example below) This is not a legitimate SARS email, but a phishing attempt from a compromised sun email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20382,20381,29187],"tags":[20381,29229,40411],"class_list":["post-13580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-phishing","category-security-2","tag-phishing","tag-sars","tag-sars-e-mail"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 21:37:26","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\/13580","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=13580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions\/13581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}