Someone noted that the text claims a Standard Bank login you never made. The pattern matches a classic phishing scam where fraudsters send a fake alert and provide a local number to lure victims into a call. Because the sender uses a South African mobile prefix, the number can be blocked directly on most handsets or flagged with the carrier. Recipients should never share personal or banking details, verify the alert through the official bank app, and report the incident to the bank and to the national anti‑fraud hotline. Keeping the number on a spam list helps protect others, too.
This is a scam: an SMS claims a Standard Bank login occurred and instructs to call (076) 468‑7152, yet I don’t even have a Standard Bank account.
