Students (or anyone) moving to a new city after New Year?
Now is the time that many people are looking for rental accommodation to take up for 2012 whether it be for studying at Uni or other reasons.  We have noticed a spate of rental accommodation scams lately where a real bargain [...]

Christmas decorations are up in Newmarket and present lists are being made. (iPad please Santa).
It is really tempting to procure those ‘bargains’ from online websites – but please be very wary. There are lots of legitimate sites for your purchases and also hundreds of scams. For example the website Alibaba.com has thousands [...]

The money transfer company is working with Crime Stoppers and advising New Zealanders to only send funds to people they know and trust

Google Map mashups are great for showing patterns of information. But should individuals be worried about a loss of privacy when it comes to publishing government data – like crime reports – on the internet?

A new year brings new opportunities for good things to happen and for bad guys to profit

Police may not think there are burglars targeting Apple buyers yet in NZ but it doesn’t hurt to be cautious

Judge David Harvey came in to speak at the latest NetSafe Spotlight meeting on Wednesday this week and his presentation on the topic of copyright and illegal downloaders provoked some lengthy debate amongst the 40 or so people who attended in our Auckland office and via video conference from Wellington.
You can watch the full presentation [...]

I would have thought that there has been enough reporting and education about scams and social engineering for people to be able to resist them, however that appears not to be the case.