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Elliott Greenblott | Fraud watch: Some habits and actions enable fraud

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By Elliott Greenblott With many scams today involving phone calls or the internet, we often forget to consider how our own everyday behavior opens us up to becoming victims of fraud. Today’s self-defense tips come from recent news headlines from around the country reflecting how criminals often rely on our own predictable behaviors and reactions. […]

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Wangiri Fraud:Wangiri fraud or “One Ring and cut scam”

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Wangiri Fraud:Wangiri fraud or “One Ring and cut scam”is coined from two Japanese words –“wan”which means one and “giri”which translates to hang up. Wangiri fraud is committed by making random calls from premium rated lines, allowing it to ring once and then hanging up; so the number is recorded as a missed call on the

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The 12 subject lines that could indicate your email is under attack

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Cyber security experts have revealed a list of the 12 most common subject lines used in phishing emails targeting businesses. The list shows that fraudsters are using a combination of personalisation and pressure in an attempt to deceive victims. In many cases, the language contained in the subject line of the email mimics popular terms

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New 3D Crime Scene Mapping Tool Turns Incident Scenes Into Virtual 3D Models

/ / Forensics, International, Security

When officers arrive at a crime or crash scene, they have to spend a lot of time looking for evidence, processing it, taking photos of it, and documenting. To help make this process more efficient, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has teamed up with the Israeli Police to invest in a

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• Rental fraud warning after shocking scam attempts

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Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The National Landlords Association says it’s been contacted by several individuals who have fallen victim to the scam, where fraudsters have used NLA branding and fake letters from NLA representatives to make their approaches

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Mandla Mandela calls for national crèche audit after Carletonville videos

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BY NONKULULEKO NJILO – 05 April 2019 – 11:55 MP and chief Mandla Mandela on Friday called for crèches in the country to be thoroughly vetted after disturbing videos of a caretaker assaulting minors at a Carletonville crèche emerged.   “We further call on our government to undertake a national audit of such institutions and ensure that an

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Rwanda: 25 Years On, Solidarity With Victims Justice Efforts Continue for 1994 Genocide

/ / Governance, International, News, Security

Alison Des Forges was Human Rights Watch’s senior advisor in the Africa Division and one of the world’s foremost experts on Rwanda. In the period leading up to the genocide, she worked tirelessly to alert world powers to the impending crisis in Rwanda. Her efforts did not stop when the genocide ended. She continued painstakingly

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ID checking start-up Onfido raises $50m from Softbank Investment

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British technology start-up Onfido has raised $50m (£38m) in new funding from investors including Japan’s Softbank Investment (SBI) as it targets growth in the US and South-East Asia. The company, founded by three Oxford University graduates in 2012, has now raised more than $100m (£76m) for its software, which usesartificial intelligence to check documents and prevent

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Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I’m an American citizen

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Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 2 Apr 2019 at 23:25 Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America’s border cops after arriving at San Francisco airport – because he refused to unlock his work laptop and phone. Gal,

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Fake mobile applications exposing Kenyans to cyber fraud, CA Report

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A proliferation of mobile applications on popular online stores is exposing Kenyans to increased cyber-attacks and fraud, the latest sector statistics report by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows.   The report covering October-December 2018 shows a dramatic spike in malware attacks, targeting mobile devices and which has seen unsuspecting Kenyans defrauded in online

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