With tax season upon us, the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service warns of a surge in scams targeting unsuspecting ...

South Africa’s fraud crisis is worsening, with rising digital, identity, and mobile fraud, but the SAFPS Fraud Summit ...

Traditionally, South Africa has been a popular country among fraudsters looking for every opportunity to try and find their next victim. Statistics from the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service ...

Other good news is that growth in the number of Protective Registration records on the SAFPS database increased by almost 29%. The highest category of people to register are men in the age group 36 to ...

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Meanwhile, a report on fraud statistics in South Africa, issued by the South African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS) for the year 2017/2018 shows a saving of over R2 billion for SAFPS member ...

SAFPS is partnering with South Africa’s leading voice biometric authentication solutions provider OneVault and regards this initiative as a significant step towards helping combat fraud within ...

Eventually, the victim lost R2.7 million in supposed fees. An Empowerment Platform In response to such scams, the SAFPS developed Yima, an innovative platform aimed at scam prevention and detection.

SAFPS says biometric identification is nothing new but commends the ABIS system for its capacity to provide a single data repository. Automated Biometric Identification System ABIS is a milestone ...

"As an impersonation scam, BEC scams are very effective. According to our SAFPS statistics, this type of fraud saw a large jump in 2023, says Karrim. Some interesting statistics ...

PUBLISHED: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:03:15 GMT CNBC Africa Share ...