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Aussies beating us at the scam-busting game

OPINION: Let's call a spade a bloody shovel – New Zealand is falling behind in combatting the fraudsters.

NBR senior journalist Maria Slade speaks with Nicholas Pointon.

Maria Slade Wed, 17 May 2023

It’s likely the overwhelming emotion for Kiwis reading about how real estate agent Carla O’Neil was scammed out of $100,000 is ‘there but for the grace of God go I’.

The 45-year-old Aucklander thought she had asked all the right questions when she investigated an opportunity to deposit her

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