10 June 2024 – A reminder of the scam alert published last week: Fraudsters are posing as SARS, luring taxpayers into a trap. Don’t fall for it! SARS never provides bank account numbers. If you need to make a payment, only use the official SARS payment channels, see the Make a Payment webpage.
The bank accounts used in the scam are fraudulent bank accounts and SARS is following up with the relevant banks and authorities:
An example of the scam has been published on our Scams & Phishing webpage.
Note that the email address the scam is being sent from, is not a SARS email address:
From: South African Revenue Service <[email protected]>
Date: 2024/06/06 08:48 (GMT+02:00)
To:
Subject: Notification from SARS
Dear Taxpayer,
An important notification has been issued and is attached to this mail. Please respond or act as stated on the letter.
