Scam Alert: The South African Banker Email Scam

phishing alert with Renzie Baluyut.

Here at KeyboardMonkeys.com, we take online business and entrepreneurial efforts seriously. Unfortunately for us digital business-folk, we still get the occasional phishing/email scam, no matter how careful we are.

So beware of this scammy piece of email, if ever it somehow makes it through into your filters.

Here it is:

Am a banker in South Africa requesting
to present you as a beneficiary to my deceased client
with a balance of about $17.4M with my bank.
Late DR.GEORGE BRUMLEY, an American who died in
2003 in an air crash with his family and others.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/

If you can help you will receive 40% of the $17.4M.
If willing provide your full names,address,age,occupation,
phone & fax numbers to contact you for further proceedings.
Regards.

Mr.Andrew Modise.

I suppose if you're stupid enough to give out all those contact details they were asking for, you'll be stupid enough to give out other sensitive information (bank info, social security, etc.).

Do your part and tell your family and friends to be a lot more suspicious of phishing scams like these. Remember, not everyone is as tech-savvy and/or cautious as you are.

Cheers, everyone.