{"id":6808,"date":"2012-02-28T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2012-02-28T06:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T06:15:43","slug":"banking-clients-robbed-of-r180m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/6808\/banking-clients-robbed-of-r180m\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking clients robbed of R180m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banking clients were collectively robbed of R180 million in 2010, the Johannesburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court has heard, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying in court on Monday, SA Banking Risk Information Centre commercial crimes general manager Susan Potgieter said the figure was up from R40m in 2009, The Sowetan newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>She said in 2009, 1500 banking customers lodged complaints about phishing.<\/p>\n<p>Phishing is an e-mail scam to obtain people&#8217;s usernames, passwords, and credit card details by directing them to almost identical replicas of company websites.<\/p>\n<p>Potgieter was testifying in the case against four men accused of defrauding 10 Vodacom customers out of around R380,000.<\/p>\n<p>Mbokodana Khoza, Mbusi Bhengu, Gregory Oduore and Thabiso Gwebuza allegedly did this by intercepting sms communication which gave them access to confidential banking information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking clients were collectively robbed of R180 million in 2010, the Johannesburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court has heard, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,10335,1720,375,27],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-banking","tag-phishing","tag-security","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}