AI Is Erasing the Signs South Africans Use to Spot Tax Scams, Kaspersky Warns

The awkward wording and amateur formatting that once gave away a scam are disappearing, as fraudsters use AI to produce convincing imitations of SARS correspondence ahead of the 23 October tax filing deadline. Kaspersky researchers found scammers had built a fake SARS eFiling page that looks and functions like the official version, asking victims for usernames, passwords and phone numbers. A separate scam presents a counterfeit Adobe PDF sign-in screen requesting email credentials.