Beware of *****ulent Calls

I would like to share my experience of how I was ****med and ended up losing a lot of money in the hopes that others can be spared of this terrible experience.

I was contacted by a (*****ulent) Absa ***** department, where the person claimed that they will help me to protect my account from the *****ulent activities that are busy taking place on my account. They verified my personal details by reading my details back to me without me giving them anything. (They had all my information ready at hand). I acknowledged that the information is correct, after which they went into detail of how my savings need to be protected from the *****ulent activities. With them having all my personal information, I trusted them and followed the instructions of transferring my savings into the "safe" account to protect my hard-earned savings. Needless to say, they got their hands on my money and disappeared leaving me with an empty savings account.

This message is to warn others, to not be caught by these *****sters, to protect themselves from any person phoning and claiming they are phoning from your bank. This message is also a plea to Absa to try and upskill their customers better to not be caught by these people who is out to rob us poor pensioners.