Something ‘phishy’ going on‚ says De Lille
Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille said on Wednesday that her name was being used in a phishing scam. She said her office had been told about several e-mails from patriciadelille@consultant.com with the subject line ‘BRICS Bank funding’."This e-mail address does not belong to me. It would appear that a fake Facebook profile is being used to solicit contact details‚" said De Lille."Once the e-mail address is received‚ an e-mail is sent to said address asking whether the recipient would be able to use grant funds worth £450 000 (R9 739 448) from the BRICS bank to ‘explore job opportunities for our citizens’. Once they agree‚ they are added to a beneficiary list and asked to pay £250 (R5 415) in order to obtain a BRICS non-residential beneficiary form."De Lille said she had asked the police to open a case."Members of the public are urged not to respond to e-mails coming from this account‚" she said."I would also like to make an appeal to residents to forward these e-mails to mayor.mayor@capetown.gov.za so that we can have record of them and hand them over to the SAPS to assist in their investigation."..
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