Avoid online scams
We want to inform our online community about recent ‘phishing’ scams in which scammers try to extract personal information or money by misrepresenting themselves as Anglo American through a series of spoof websites.
These types of scams may be facilitated through:
- Unsolicited emails with malicious links
- Social Media videos (i.e. on YouTube) inviting people to invest
- WhatsApp channels claiming to be official Anglo American representatives promising guaranteed return on investments
How to spot an Official Anglo American asset
- A full list of our official websites can be found on www.angloamerican.com under the menu title ‘Our websites’, if a website is not found on this list, it is not an official Anglo American website
- If you are contacted by somebody claiming to be from Anglo American, please note individual’s email addresses only follow the @angloamerican.com format
What should you do?
Do not...
- Respond to unsolicited business propositions and/or offers from people with whom you are unfamiliar with
- Disclose your personal or financial details to anyone you do not know, or via online portals
- Send any money. Anglo American would not ask for money transfers or payments from users
- Engage in further communication if you believe the communications may be fraudulent
Do...
- Contact Anglo American via [email protected] where we ask people both internally and externally to report any fraudulent activity or to verify whether communication they have received is legitimate
- Contact your local police and provide them with all information you may have from the perpetrators
- Save messages from the perpetrator for further investigation and send them to [email protected]