{"id":132716,"date":"2016-08-07T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=132716"},"modified":"2016-08-07T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T19:22:07","slug":"beware-this-eskom-banking-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/132716\/beware-this-eskom-banking-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware this Eskom banking scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has warned of a scam involving criminals who pretend to be representatives of the company claiming that its banking details have changed.<\/p>\n<p>The fraudsters claim that Eskom has changed its banking account to Nedbank and then provides new details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fraudsters use letters, faxes and emails bearing the Eskom logo and the forged signature of Eskom\u2019s Group chief executive, Brian Molefe. &#8220;They have also forged Nedbank banking details,\u201d the power utility said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom customers are asked to take note that Eskom does not have a banking account with Nedbank and that Eskom would never send notifications to its customers in this manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said banking details appear on each customer\u2019s electricity bill and, wary customers should contact the group&#8217;s customer call centre for verification.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on scams<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/131176\/watch-out-for-these-deposit-and-refund-scams-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch out for these deposit and refund scams in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cyber security is a battle of the people versus email scammers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/129116\/cyber-security-is-a-battle-of-the-people-versus-email-scammers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cyber security is a battle of the people versus email scammers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has warned of a scam involving criminals who pretend to be representatives of the company claiming that its banking details have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":69657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[1164,26],"class_list":["post-132716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-eskom","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132718,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132716\/revisions\/132718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}