Leaving kids unsupervised on their devices is putting their lives in danger. Jordan DeMay was a 17-year-old teenager from the US. One night, he was chatting with a girl on Instagram, everything flowed pretty well and they built a sense of trust. Soon after, things got serious and the girl shared explicit photos of herself,…
South Africans are seeing a surge in fraudulent bank charges on their accounts. People don’t know where to turn once they see unexpected charges from Facebook, MTN, Amazon, or other vendors on their transaction history. Alongside this, people don’t take the right actions when their phone gets stolen. Shashi Naidoo had her phone stolen and…
SIM swap scams are on the rise in South Africa. On December 2nd, 2024, Hawks arrested 6 people for stealing more than R18 million using SIM swap scams. The bad actors took over online business accounts linked to Mukuru, a Standard Bank partner, and used SIM swapping to facilitate the fraud in October 2021. After…
