The popular morning news anchor has been inundated with calls and emails from scam victims desperate to get their money back

A number of syndicates around the country have been stealing the identities of corpses to defraud the insurance industry out of millions of rands.

Identity theft is far more common than people think and it costs the economy about R1-billion each year.

Israel said on Wednesday the use foreign-born Israeli identities by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant did not prove Mossad did it.