Watch out for this email · impersonating SARS
Reaches you by email · Public web warning · 07 Oct
The trick it’s trying
SARS warns of spoofed emails made to look like SARS refund messages, including messages that direct taxpayers to false forms and fake websites to capture bank account details. No specific phishing URL was visible in the source excerpt.
Fake SARS refund or assessment email sends the taxpayer to a bogus form/site to collect personal, tax, banking, card, or eFiling login details.
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SARS’s scams and phishing page, crawled on 2026-10-06, warns taxpayers that SARS will never request passwords, OTPs, banking PINs or eFiling credentials through email, SMS, social media or telephone. SARS lists recent scam examples such as fake High Court summonses and assessment notices, and describes spoofed emails that claim refunds and lead to fake forms/websites collecting banking and tax details.
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