{"id":154,"date":"2024-04-10T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/?p=154"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:19:44","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\/2024\/04\/10\/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>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>A number of people were arrested following the search warrants, charged and will be appearing in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[22,16,17,23],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"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}]}}