Scam stories

Spikes in vaccine-related phishing activity centred around new updates, announcements and ground-breaking approvals from around the world.More

"Attackers prefer to use COVID-19 in their less targeted scamming attacks that focus on fake cures and donations."More

One of the biggest scams to be aware of this shopping season are phishing attacks.More

The phishing campaign installs NetSupport Manager remote admin tool to take over and execute commands. More

Cyber criminals have sent out a series of malicious emails attempting to manipulate users suffering from financial turmoil and difficulties triggered by the COVID-19 crisis.More

As threats increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses need to be focused on implementing technological solutions and investing in employee education to achieve basic security hygiene.More

New insights from CCL reveal that a significant amount of New Zealanders are still falling for phishing email scams, due in part to impulsive email behaviour.More

A report found small businesses are paying a hefty price to scammers; on average losing $38,845 and recovering much less than half.More

“We’ve received more than 900 reports over the weekend. It looks like the real thing but has some tell-tale mistakes that people can use to tell it’s a scam."More

Along with the viral potential of its popular filters, FaceApp has of late, generated a huge wave of media attention amid concerns about online privacy.More

"Essentially people are doing this because people are easy to scam when they are anxious, desperate or in trouble."More

Nuisance-call blocking landline gives peace of mind around scam calls and new postpaid mobile plans designed specifically for over-65s.More

“We’re working with the police and banks to investigate further and anyone who has been left out of pocket will be reimbursed."More

Romance scams are popular because they prey on vulnerable people looking for love, and the victims want to believe what they are reading and seeing, which causes them to forget basic protection from scams."More

Fake cryptocurrency apps on Google Play have been discovered to be phishing and scamming users out of cryptocurrency, according to a new report from ESET. More

In the last month, two e-mail scams surfaced asking taxpayers to fill in a form to receive a refund owed to them.More

Cybercriminals are mimicking well-known companies, “brandjacking” them in a bid to infect computer systems and to steal sensitive data.More

It says scammers are increasingly taking the opportunity to impersonate NBN employees to take advantage of consumers.More

“40% of New Zealand parents don’t think they can keep themselves safe online.”More

“The ICA would like to advise members of the public to exercise caution by checking on the URL and web address."More

Inland Revenue has issued an urgent warning about a tax scam that has caught many people off guard today.More

What happens when you put cold call scammers up against a seasoned programmer? You get sweet revenge, if the case of one security developer.More

Targeted threats, spear phishing, email fraud and phishing are some of the top risk trends in FireEye's latest risk report.More

In some cases, the caller had threatened to immediately disconnect their power if payment was not made immediately.More