The South African Post Office (SAPO), long the butt of jokes related to their rather inefficient delivery history, have now put out a warning regarding a new scam doing the rounds.

No it’s not the one where you send something and it only arrives months later with any valuables removed, that’s just how SAPO rolls.

It’s actually a scam where customers are conned into depositing money into fraudulent Postbank accounts, with this below from News24:

This version of the so-called 419 scam is an offline social engineering trick where people receive a sealed package with a certificate claiming that a large deposit has been made into a Postbank account.

“The instruction in your delivery package states that to activate the Postbank account opened for you in order to claim your winnings, you need to pay a certain amount of cash into another account. This is when you are conned because you will be seeing the last of the money that you would have deposited into that other account,” Sapo said.

The state-owned entity advised the public to ignore such packages, and insisted that it would not open accounts on behalf of people and request an “activation fee”.

We say it time and time again but, if you’re required to pay money to access funds that ‘belong’ to you, one must start to doubt the authenticity of that transaction.

[source:news24]

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