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Tips for students on how to avoid being scammed

Prospective students should be particularly aware of bogus educational institutions

Thousands of jubilant matriculants will be celebrating the end of 12 years of secondary schooling.

Tips for students on how to avoid being scammed

Prospective students should be particularly aware of bogus educational institutions

Goliatho: Suspected Ponzi schemes are
being fronted by celebrities like Davido. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Ponzi schemes flourish in Nigeria’s declining economy

With opportunities dwindling, Nigerian youths are investing in dubious enterprises – and paying the price

Bitcoin ‘whales’ pulling cryptocurrency

Bitcoin’s crypto-nite wanes as illicit activity falls

New research shows that there were fewer cryptocurrency-related crimes in 2020 — a bumper year for the digital asset. But the biggest scam originated in South Africa

Sakawa is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of an online dating fraud syndicate in Ghana. (Supplied)

Sakawa Review: Ghana, e-waste and online dating scams

Sakawa is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of an online dating fraud syndicate in Ghana

Pay back the money: Nosipho Mahlangu has accused Colonel Kgomotso Seremane of convincing her to invest R200 000 in a nonexistent business venture to supply equipment to the UN. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SANDF colonel accused of swindling colleagues in UN business scam

A senior soldier who is part of South Africa’s peacekeeping missions is accused by her colleagues of swindling them out of of hundreds of thousands of rands in a nonexistent…

New rules for crypto-trading (Photo Archive)

New rules for crypto-trading

Local regulation of cryptocurrencies could be implemented as soon as next year

Mohamed is a tout, one of an army of unofficial “guides” that hassle tourists in Marrakech’s old city. They offer to navigate through its narrow alleys, for a generous tip, or escort you straight to the best-priced souvenirs in town.

The pushy tout’s guide to Marrakech

The Marrakech that tourists are shown is a very different place from the city that locals live in

While the ANC leadership is hopeful of reaching an agreement on credentials when the conference resumes on Sunday morning, some delegates fear a repeat of the collapse of the conference on several occasions by supporters of former mayor Zandile Gumede in 2015.. (Rajesh Jantilal)

​Gumede to take ‘enforced’ leave of absence but maintains her innocence

The eThekwini ANC chairperson was asked to take leave or face removal

Undercover investigators catch Eskom employees selling transformers

A sting operation involving a private investigator posing as a farmer has uncovered a scam in which staffers sell transformers on the black market.

Scam victims behind bars in Dubai

Scam victims behind bars in Dubai

The South Africans allegedly duped by a UAE trickster face an uphill battle to return home

The AmbioLight

Kickstarter is not all good endings, sometimes it’s scams

After backing a successful Kickstarter project, but not seeing the product in development, Liron Segev believes he may have been the victim of a scam.

CRISPR technology is a relatively new and powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and modify gene function. (File photo: Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

M&G readers targeted by scam gang

A criminal gang has been covertly targeting the M&G’s online readers with a sophisticated security scam. Help us ensure they don’t succeed.

The closed office of Zeekler Corporation is shown in Lexington

Small-town magician siphons $600m through ponzi scheme

Authorities say Paul Burks was the mastermind of a $600-million scam, one of the biggest in US history, that attracted one-million investors.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

‘No easy walk to wealth’: Dept warns against fraudsters

The department of finance has condemned the use of documents containing government logos being used to con people out of their hard-earned money.

Supra Mahumapelo is facing a palace revolt

Supra Mahumapelo got travel agency cash

Mahumapelo has pocketed at least R200000 through his travel agency’s business dealings with an ailing municipality in the province.

Phishing can cost you, big time

If you fall foul of a phishing scam and give away your details because of your own negligence, banks are probably not liable.

Taiwan man pays $400 000 for croissant

A Taiwan scam victim paid 12-million Taiwan dollars for a croissant which he never got to eat,

SA men in plastic banknote scam

Front company channelled millions of dollars in commissions from Nigerian contract.

South Africans’ luck runs out with lottery scams

International lottery scams are claiming that people are winning hundreds of thousands of euros and dollars.