DStv Hoax Email Currently Targeting Naïve Internauts – Warn Security Experts

A DStv hoax email is currently masquerading across the Internet, targeting innocent Internauts, warned security experts in a recent disclosure, reported mybroadband.co.za on October 12, 2015.

Notably, DStv or Digital Satellite Television is pay-media media firm MultiChoice's digital satellite television service in Africa that was launched way back in 1995. It offers general entertainment, lifestyle and culture, movies, sports, documentaries amongst a host of other channels to MultiChoice patrons.

The fake email appears to be sent from a @multichoice.com address, claiming to be dispatched by the DStv Connect Team.

Addressing the recipient of the email as 'Dear Customer' it tells him that that the company has noticed that he has still not verified his email address. It then instructs the recipient to click on a link furnished within the text of the email so as to thwart disconnection.

Clicking the link however, directs the recipient to a Dropbox form that asks for his (recipient) email address along with his password.

MultiChoice has claimed that the email was indeed phony, as published by mybroadband.co.za on October 12, 2015.

MultiChoice stressed that it will never ask its customers to click on a link to confirm their email address or discontinue their DStv subscription if they do not verify their email address.

MultiChoice urged its patrons to avoid the emails by not opening it and to immediately delete them.

But, in case a customer has been trapped by the phony email and entered his classified credentials on the fake website, they must immediately get in touch with their bank and cancel all their credit card details.

Besides this, if a patron is registered with the DStv website for its self-service they should instantly reset their password that would avoid the scamsters from accessing their accounts (as in the above mentioned case).

Unfortunately, MultiChoice is cautioning its customers after being repeatedly targeted by cybercriminals. In March 2011, a scam email featuring MultiChoice's logo along a MultiChoice workers's signature had popped up which told the company's patrons that a fallacy had been identified with their billing and payment details, and thus, instructed them to click on a URL to circumvent suspension.

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