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DA to report e-Panic data breach to Information Regulator (opens the original)
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Gauteng’s e-Panic Button app data breach has exposed the names and locations of people who made crime reports and the names of the people accused of committing crimes. Illustration: Lisa Nelson The Democratic Alliance says it will report the Gauteng e-Panic Button data breach to the Information Regulator. This follows our report last week that the database behind the provincial government’s emergency app was left unsecured. It exposed crime reports, including reports of domestic violence and ass
The story of a money mule, and how she helped the R511-million Morita scam (opens the original)
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A money mule is a person who has allowed, perhaps unintentionally, scammers to use their bank account to receive payments. These payments are then swiftly moved elsewhere, for example into cryptocurrency, so that the money cannot be recovered. Illustration: Lisa Nelson Jill (not her real name) was not stealing this money. Her job was to pass it on, with strict instructions sent to her over WhatsApp. Morita Forestry called her a “mentor”, but in reality, she was a money mule, and one of many key
How police lent credibility to the Morita pyramid scheme (opens the original)
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Members of the South African Police Service pose at an event hosted with Morita Forestry, a company that scammed South Africans out of millions of rands. One of the most valuable things that Morita Forestry owned was not its Sandton office or its fake American parent company. It was two photographs. Last week we broke the story of how Morita Forestry scammed South Africans out of millions of rands. Morita pretended investments in it would support forestry projects in the United States, which in
South Africans lose hundreds of millions of rands to Morita Forestry investment scam (opens the original)
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The Morita Forestry offices in Gauteng. Image: Facebook You likely know somebody who was ripped off by Morita Forestry. You may also know someone, an influencer with questionable ethics, who made money from this scam, or perhaps one of the lucky people who got in on it early. It has been spreading through TikTok, WhatsApp groups, and Facebook. The concept is simple: invest in a woodland in America, and collect money every day from it. But there are no woodlands. Morita Forestry is a pyramid sche
Exposing a syndicate — by getting scammed (opens the original)
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Collage of adverts on social media offering quick-buck jobs. But they’re all scams, often falsely using the names of real companies like Makro and Amazon. I decided to be a victim of a scam. GroundUp gave me a R2,000 budget, and I threw in some of my money too. I replied to an advert offering a job working for Amazon where I would “process orders” and get paid for it. There was some confusion down the line, because I ended up working for “Makro” instead. I got scammed out of almost R4,000, and t
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