Namibia just banned the Crowd1 get-rich-quick scheme as a pyramid. SA is its biggest market.

Though money flow is hard to measure, the Crowd1 website draws the vast majority of its...

Here's how you know you're being duped in a vishing scam

The majority of internet banking fraud and credit card fraud cases opened by her office...

The definitive guide to what to do if you lost your ID, passport, credit card or cell phone

Fraud and identity theft often go hand-in-hand, and both are a massive problem in South...

South Africans are renting dead bodies to scam life insurers

Life insurers rejected 1,915 funeral claims worth R176.4 million in 2018, of which 1,127...

Bruce Whitfield: How crooks steal your future, again and again

EOH, much like Steinhoff, shows how big growth stories can attract investors – while...

Discovery Bank closed a gaping credit card security hole on Monday – but says it suffered no fraud

We found the flaw in Discovery Bank's system still working on Monday morning.

If you joined a ‘WhatsApp stokvel’ you’ve probably been scammed

A stokvel association warned South Africans that 'WhatsApp stokvels' are likely pyramid...

‘Fraud is a cancer that is crippling our country’: Supreme Court of Appeal upholds 20-year jail sentence for ‘remorseful’ R5 million fraudster

The Supreme Court of Appeal was not swayed by arguments that former Merseta employee...