Scams have been around for years. However, since the technology revolution, the options and methods have become more creative, more widespread and more lucrative for those engaging in such criminal activity.

 

Before the age of the internet, the well-publicised Nigerian 419 scams were initiated via fax.

 

The internet is now flooded with scams, and email scams vary from a long lost relative who has left you a large sum of money to any number of ‘get rich’ quick scams.

 

Nowadays sc...

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Facebook usage in New Zealand has grown to over 2 million users, for which most are active on the site daily. With the ability to communicate to many people quickly, advertise social events and connect with new groups, Facebook has become a lucrative platform for criminals to ply their trade.

The scams are becoming not only more common, but are also becoming more creative in the way they try to ‘trick’ the user into clicking links and ultimately infecting the user.

Although Facebook hav...

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Scam artists have been around a long time, and as new technology evolve, so do the methods scam artists utilise, to prey on their target.

 Many email scams have been doing the rounds over the years, and while most of us realise offers of huge sums of money are too good to be true, the criminals have come up with new ways to look for vulnerable suspects.

 Phishing emails are those designed to ‘trick’ a suspect into clicking on a link. The link will usually take the person to a page that lo...
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