{"id":616243,"date":"2022-08-13T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=616243"},"modified":"2022-08-13T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T13:31:08","slug":"sars-warns-of-new-scams-targeting-south-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/616243\/sars-warns-of-new-scams-targeting-south-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS warns of new scams targeting South Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has warned taxpayers to be aware of emails or SMSs that ask for personal, tax, banking and eFiling details.<\/span><\/p>\n

It said that members of the public are randomly emailed with false \u201cspoofed\u201d emails made to look as if these emails were sent from SARS, but are in fact fraudulent emails aimed at enticing unsuspecting taxpayers to part with personal information such as bank account details.<\/p>\n

Examples include emails that appear to be from returns@sars.co.za\u00a0or refunds@sars.co.za\u00a0indicating that taxpayers are eligible to receive\u00a0tax refunds.<\/p>\n

These emails contain links to false forms and fake websites made to look like the \u201creal thing\u201d, but with the aim of fooling people into entering personal information such as bank account details which the criminals then extract and use fraudulently, it said.<\/p>\n

It tax service pointed to two emails circulating:<\/p>\n

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SARS taxpayers should take note of the following:<\/p>\n