/ 17 August 2006

SAB again warns of e-mail scam

South African Breweries (SAB) has again warned consumers about an e-mail scan that is being widely circulated in South Africa and which promises free products from the company.

SAB initially put a warning out to the public on July 20 and the e-mail has once again appeared in the public domain, SAB said in a statement on Thursday.

The e-mail resembles a chain letter and promises 12 cases of SAB’s products if an e-mail is forwarded to “ten friends”, and then copied to a company that SAB has never heard of and had no dealings with.

“The company would like to warn consumers that this is not a legitimate promotion by the company and SAB never takes part in so-called chain-letter activities.

“We’d like to ask consumers please to treat this as a scam and in no way connected to SAB,” it said. — I-Net Bridge