20 Jul 2018

Romance scams online fleece New Zealanders out millions

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 20 July 2018

The latest report from Netsafe shows that in the first quarter of this year New Zealanders were conned out of 7.9 million dollars through online romance scams.

That compares with 1.4 million dollars being scammed from people for the whole of 2017 here.

Netsafe director of technology and partnerships Sean Lyons talks about what is going on and who's being targeted.

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