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​As more and more people are becoming aware and more vigilant about online procurement scams. Fraudsters are also getting more desperate and trying everything that shows up in their heads.
One of the bewildering discoveries about people getting scammed is how someone ignores all the red flags in the scam email, to actually end up giving away their money. 

Let us begin with this scam:
  1. Before one can even verify the sender's email address. Why in the world would the Department of Public Service & Administration (DPSA) need drill bits? This is a red flag!
  2. The DPSA simply deals with the public sector i.e. Civil Servants across the government sectors. The department is more human resources orientated and drilling and heavy equipment are all totally not part of the department's functions or mandates.
  3. To save your time and data it would be wise to then check the senders email address, and not what is just shown in block letters. Moving your curser on the senders name simply reveals the hidden email address.
  4. ​The senders address is tenders@dpsa-gov.org. DPSA email addresses read as follows @dpsa.gov.za.  This is a red flag!
  5. ​The DPSA is a government department in South Africa (gov.za) and not an organization.
  6. Sammy Ndaba is just a name the scammers have made up.
  7. The telephone number given is just a number diverted to a cellphone where the scammers will mostly like have a lady pretending to be at the DPSA answering all calls. These are normally people desperate for a jobs being used by the scammers to fool the public.
  8. The fax number given is just an online faxing facility registered by the fraudsters. A genuine government fax number will begin with the 012 area code for the Pretoria area. the 012 code will then be followed by 336 and then four more digits in consistency with the  office location within Pretoria. For their own landline number, the scammers gave a number that is not constant with government phone listings. This is a red flag!
  9. If you decide to open the attachments. The image of the drill and the mention of mining simply blows the cover and you can then ask yourself, why is the request not being mage by the mining department of public works at the most. The truth is that both departments do not procure such equipment.  This is a red flag!
  10. The stamp on the RFQ is only a desperate move from the scammers to try and make this bogus email seem legit.


AS PER TREASURY RULES ALL GOVERNMENT RELATED TENDERS AND RFQ's  WILL BE ADVERTISED ON http://www.etenders.gov.za and bidders need to be registered on the https://secure.csd.gov.za


HAVE A LOOK AT THE SCAM
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