Beware of ****

Good morning my fellow South Africans, I want to warn you about an International **** going around in our country:

Please note Standard Charted Bank South Africa is not part of the **** reported below.

The email below that we received from British Samsung Awards UK to notify us that we won 1,000,000,00GBP:

This is to inform you that your Email has won (£1,000,000.00GBP) (ONE MILLION GREAT BRITISH POUNDS) from Samsung Mobile Company United Kingdom which is organized by Samsung Mobile Company in conjunction with Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company, “Your Email Address" were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Nine Hundred Thousand email from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Oceanic as part of our international program which is conducted annually, 5 (Five) people were selected as the lucky winners, Through electronic ballot System without the winner applying.? VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM Beware This is not a joke imagine you received out of the blue an email to inform you that your email address was selected out of 995 emails and you won 1,000,000,00GBP (Great British Pounds) in our currency just over the R19,000,000. This happened to us, we receive the notice via email that we are the winners of the above amount when you receive something like that, you smell a rat, I knew immediately that this is a ****, but did contact the company to make sure. There was a Whatsapp number on the promo letter which I will attach, which was sent from Mr. Smith Jones whit a profile photo of himself, I contacted him and he ensure me that this is legit and that we won the money. Mr. Jones according to him was the event manager, but I found out later that the profile was Mr. Scott Garrath and he was the event coordinator. He sends me a winning form to complete, to claim our money, we did and he asks us to stay online because Standard Charted Bank UK will contact us soon, this time I received a Whatsapp call from Mr. Roy Moore and according to him he is the HEAD FINANCIAL Consultant of the above bank, and send me a link to click on, and to follow the instructions answering all the questions accordingly. I told my wife that they are going to ask for money because that's either ID fishing or as I said money to be paid in. An email from the bank notifies us that a million ponds were moved into our account, however, the bank required a C.O.T code (COST OF TRANSFER) to complete the transaction and the cost to obtain the code is 750GBP or R15000 in our currency payable to the bank The warning signs are all the spelling mistakes in the corresponds, and please don’t try to contact the bank in the UK, they just not interested or they don’t bother to reply, after about ten emails Email conversations with the bank; From Standard Chartered Bank to us:

Dear Elmarie, please confirm from the institution that sent us your details for the transaction, the transaction is done and we are releasing the funds to your bank account as soon as the authorization code is issued to you for finalization of the transaction. kind regards

Management Dear Carl van der Westhuizen, Please it 100% legit, your transaction has been done already just waiting for the authorized code so that the funds will be released accordingly, confirmation has been made, as soon as the requirement is met, we shall email the code to enable you to finalize your transaction Signed Management

Whatsapp response:

I am Roy Moore from Standard chartered bank, we have been directed to transfer 1,000,000.00 GBP into your provided bank account from Samsung Global Company. Account number First National Bank. 07/06/2021, 09:51 - This chat is with a business account. Tap to learn more. 07/06/2021, 09:53 - Roy Moore: Please the transaction is E-payment online transfer payment and we have sent you the transfer update on your email address