{"id":154,"date":"2024-04-10T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saje.nz\/sphere\/?st-import=dfa640652bddf34473306d4df4ea3454"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:18:35","slug":"new-zealand-government-department-dia-department-of-internal-affairs-busts-text-scam-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/new-zealand-government-department-dia-department-of-internal-affairs-busts-text-scam-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Government department DIA (Department of Internal Affairs) busts text scam ring."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week it was announced that DIA had busted a text scam ring operating across New Zealand. DIA released that they had carried out 12 search warrants across the country during 2023 with 4000 items seized consisting of $35,000 in SIM Cards, about $10,000 in luxury items, a designer handbag and skincare products along with more than $56,000 in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of people were arrested following the search warrants, charged and will be appearing in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SecureSphere can attest that unfortunately these text scams are still happening with 2 different one\\&#8217;s in the last week being reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CERT NZ has a very helpful guide on Protecting Yourself Against Text Message Scams &#8211; see: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.ownyouronline.govt.nz\/personal\/get-protected\/guides\/protect-yourself-against-text-message-scams\/\\\">Protect yourself against text message scams &#8211; Own Your Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week it was announced that DIA had busted a text scam ring operating across New Zealand. DIA released that they had carried out 12 search warrants across the country during 2023 with 4000 items seized consisting of $35,000 in SIM Cards, about $10,000 in luxury items, a designer handbag and skincare products along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[10,4,5,11],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyber-scams","category-cybersecurity-awareness","tag-cyberscams","tag-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurityawareness","tag-scambusting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}