{"id":16812,"date":"2022-11-23T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud"},"modified":"2022-11-23T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:09:58","slug":"eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud","title":{"rendered":"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud.<\/b><\/p>\n

Dlamini, who was represented by Deputy National Commissioner Mumcy Dlamini said available statistics showed that over E55 million was lost through fraud in the period spanning from October, 2021 to September which indicated a 0.5 per cent increase when compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n

Dlamini said this during the launch of the International Fraud Awareness Week Launch themed \u2018Think before you Click\u2019, held at the Eswatini Bank head offices in Mbabane yesterday. He said without doubt, fraud was a scourge that was constantly affecting the financial stability of individuals and businesses in the country.<\/p>\n

\u2018The rerun theme “Think Before You Click” encourages thoughtfulness, soberness and consciousness, and when transacting online,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The national commissioner stated that the belief was that as more people moved to digital platforms for day-to-day transactions such as the payment of utility bills, chances of users lowering their guard and clicking right away increases, opening a doorway for cyber fraudsters to their cash and savings.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, people should always be mindful and alert that one click can result in serious money losses and because of the strong existing link between fraud and cybercrime nowadays, a huge chunk of fraud crimes committed locally have evolved to cyber frauds which can be tracked regionally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the Eswatini Bankers Association (EBA) and all stakeholders should be lauded for their resolve and commitment in conducting anti-fraud awareness and education to help reduce the impact of the phenomenon in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cPractical strategies and interventions that have been employed through co-operation and collaboration are evidence that you have consistently championed this campaign,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

He further added that cyber related fraud scams that were most predominant in the country included ATM Fraud where the victims PIN and debit or credit card numbers were stolen and used to withdraw money from ATMs without authorisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than E400 000 was lost from 45 cases reported under this scam and over 141 cases of this scam have reported between the period of October, 2021 and September, 2022 on internet fraud,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Eswatini<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eswatini. National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud. Dlamini, who was represented by Deputy National Commissioner Mumcy Dlamini said available statistics showed that over E55 million was lost through fraud in the period spanning from October, 2021 to September which indicated a 0.5 per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-16812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"\nESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-23T11:47:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-23T13:09:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"409\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-23T11:47:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-23T13:09:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud\"},\"wordCount\":371,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud\",\"name\":\"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD - Eswatini\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-23T11:47:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-23T13:09:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud. ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":409,\"caption\":\"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\",\"name\":\"Eswatini\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD - Eswatini","description":"National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud. ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD","og_description":"National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud. ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud","og_site_name":"Eswatini","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-11-23T11:47:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-11-23T13:09:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":409,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD","datePublished":"2022-11-23T11:47:44+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-23T13:09:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud"},"wordCount":371,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Eswatini","Eswatini"],"articleSection":["all news","economy","head lines"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud","name":"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD - Eswatini","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg","datePublished":"2022-11-23T11:47:44+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-23T13:09:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini has disclosed that Eswatini has lost E55 million through fraud. ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669233702.14.jpg","width":640,"height":409,"caption":"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/eswatini-records-e55m-loss-to-fraud#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ESWATINI RECORDS E55M LOSS TO FRAUD"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/","name":"Eswatini","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}