Swiss citizens living in South Africa have lately become victims of banking frauds. The perpetrators get access to details from Swiss or Liechtenstein banking accounts (names, addresses, signatures, credit balance, etc.) and use this information to forge orders to transfer money to bank accounts in Asia. To prevent such cases, the Consulate General of Switzerland recommends Swiss or Liechtenstein bank account holders to be vigilant with their banking identity details and to request their bank not to send correspondence via postal service and not to process any written money transfer order without prior consultation of the bank account owner via the telephone number that is lodged with the bank (not the one on the instructions).

Consular meetings of the Regional Consular Centre Pretoria and the Consulate General in Cape Town

As part of the development of their services towards Swiss citizens the Regional Consular Centre of the Embassy in Pretoria and the Consulate General in Cape Town are organizing consular meetings in their respective consular districts throughout the year 2012.

 Consular meetings 2012 (pdf, 24 Kb)