House burglaries are on the rise and the banking sector and cash distribution industry consider the risks
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/ 17 January 2012
The South African Banking Risk Information Centre says it is unable to comment on the recent hi-tech cyber heist of R42-million from the Postbank.
Robberies targeting bank clients withdrawing large amounts of cash have increased, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre has said.
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/ 9 February 2010
The number of schemes to fraudulently obtain information from internet banking users has grown, the SA Banking Risk Information Centre says.
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/ 23 November 2009
Credit card fraud continues to hit South Africa’s banking industry, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre said on Monday.
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/ 24 November 2008
Credit-card fraud cost SA R420-million in the past year and has increased by 146%, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre says.
So futile and low-tech was the exercise back in 2004 that just five attacks using explosives took place countrywide in that year.
Con-artists posing as South African Revenue Service (Sars) officials are trying to take tax refunds back from an unsuspecting public, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) warned on Tuesday. ”Sars is currently refunding individuals who are entitled to tax refunds and thus the storyline is quite believable,” said Sabric.
Eight ATMs have been bombed in South Africa in less than a week, an escalating trend that has become a nearly daily offence in the crime-ridden country, police said on Monday. Three police officers and two civilians appeared in court on Monday in connection with the bombing of a cash machine last week, said police spokesperson Louis Jacobs.
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/ 7 November 2007
In one day I received three emails telling me I had won money: the first, from international payment company PayPal, informed me that someone I had never heard of had paid me 000; the second told me the United States Internal Revenue Services owed me money — even though I have never been a US taxpayer — and the third said I had won â,¬550 000 in the Spanish Lottery.