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scammers

Get-rich-quick schemes, pyramids and ponzis: five signs you’re being scammed

Maverick Life

Get-rich-quick schemes, pyramids and ponzis: five signs you’re being scammed

By Bomikazi Zeka and Abdul Latif Alhassan

Not so fast! Watch out for these psychological techniques used by scammers — and how to protect yourself

Sci-Tech

Not so fast! Watch out for these psychological techniques used by scammers — and how to protect yourself

By Mike Johnstone and Georgia Psaroulis

More distress — how scammers defraud Sassa grant recipients

Op-eds

More distress — how scammers defraud Sassa grant recipients

By Israel Nkuna

Buying a legal second-hand car can take you on a perilous ride

South Africa

Buying a legal second-hand car can take you on a perilous ride

By Bridget Hilton-Barber

Crack down on the scammers, they say, but the cops should lock up the greedy scammed moegoes

DM168

Crack down on the scammers, they say, but the cops should lock up the greedy scammed moegoes

By Mr Styles