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Online fraudsters targeting landlords

Wednesday 18th of March 2009
The scam is one of several highlighted by Fraud Week, earlier in March.

Typically, landlords are contacted via email from someone overseas who says they want to move to New Zealand.

There is typically a series of contacts, and the fraudsters spend quite a bit of time building up confidence, says Lee Chisholm of online safety organisation NetSafe.

The crux of the sc...
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