Scams
Banks roll out Confirmation of Payee to combat scams
Bank scams are estimated to cost customers $200 million a year and from today, all New Zealand's main banks are rolling out a confirmation of payee service to help stop scams. Audio
Taiwan looking to combat youth mental health situation
Asia correspondent Per Elinder Liljas speaks to Lisa Owen about trafficking and cyber scams in Thailand, the youth mental health situation in Taiwan and trouble at sea between China and the… Audio
Call for banks to fast-track account name matching
Consumer rights advocates want banks to fast-track account name matching to help stave off an increasing number of scams. But how easy is it? Audio
Banks promise scam busting effort
Retail banks are joining forces to fight fraudsters with a raft of news measures including a joint scam busting centre. Cyber watchdog CERT estimates financial scams cost Kiwis 20 million dollars in… Video, Audio
Migrants caught in scam will have nowhere to live in three days
A group of migrants scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars for the promise of work in New Zealand now have just three days before they have nowhere to live. Immigration New Zealand officials are… Video, Audio
The Week in Detail: Bank fraud, broken roads and the kākāpō
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Playing whack-a-mole with fraudsters
Bank scams are rising exponentially, so much so that $183 million has gone out of New Zealanders' accounts over the last year. Audio
Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson
Today Dan talks to Jesse about the different types of scams that are being tried all around the world and how to avoid falling victim to them. Audio
The Week in Detail: Wallabies, AI, and the NZ Steel deal
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Latitude hack: Privacy watchdog advocates pushback on data demands
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner says it's time for Kiwis to start pushing back on how their data is being collected and retained in the wake of the biggest-ever data breach. A million past and… Audio
The Week in Detail: From sea ice to story sovereignty
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Coming up
Cyber security with Jordan Heersping
You've seen one, you've seen them all - except you haven't, because they keep popping up like weeds under different guises on your phones and in your inboxes: Fresh fake text messages and phishing… Audio
Scams falling through the regulatory cracks
Scams are seemingly on the rise - and they're becoming increasingly elaborate. But who takes action against the scammers? Audio
Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson
Today Dan Watson, owner and managing director of Vertech IT Services talks to Jesse about usage of AI to make imposter scams using voice cloning. Audio
The Kiwi YouTuber taking down the crypto scammers from his Christchurch home
It was an email from a friend offering a investment opportunity he couldn't turn down that transformed Christchurch man Danny de Hek into a self confessed Crypto Ponzi Scheme buster. Since that email… Audio
Scott Bainbridge on digging into New Zealand's biggest swindle
In 1966 Robert 'Skip' Gardner hopped the Tasman and brought a small group of grifters with him to run a company that was looking distributors to sell its cosmetics through dairies and milk-bars. The… Audio
Romance scammers still a problem
A year ago the police warned that romance scammers were stealing millions of dollars from New Zealanders. A year on is the problem any better or worse? Detective Inspector Christiaan Barnard is the… Audio
Digital Strategy, Aussies crack down on ransomware, text scam does the rounds
Tech correspondent Paul Matthews looks at government work on a digital strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand, and has recently released a proposed structure and discussion document. So what are the… Audio
Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson
Today owner and managing director of Vertech IT Services, Daniel Watson talks to Jesse about a text scam on phones which has been sent to tens of thousands of New Zealanders. He also discusses what… Audio
Online scams up 79% - and just the "tip of the iceberg"
The Financial Markets Authority is warning of a steep rise in New Zealanders falling for investment scams with the number of complaints up 79 per cent in the first half of the year, compared to the… Audio
