lilGr
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Cape Town - Has your monthly bandwidth of 3GB suddenly dwindled overnight? You may be a victim of bandwidth theft, an easily investigated crime that the public aren't reporting enough, police say.
Stealing a person's bandwidth or internet time by fraudulently using their login and password has been a crime since the inception of the Electronic Communications & Transactions Act in 2002, Saps commercial branch Superintendent Jerome Hardenberg said.
"The Commercial Branch in the Western Cape took the lead in addressing this crime in June 2007," Hardenberg told News24.
But few members of the public were aware that they could file a charge at any police station, and that police can locate offenders within a matter of minutes.
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Stealing a person's bandwidth or internet time by fraudulently using their login and password has been a crime since the inception of the Electronic Communications & Transactions Act in 2002, Saps commercial branch Superintendent Jerome Hardenberg said.
"The Commercial Branch in the Western Cape took the lead in addressing this crime in June 2007," Hardenberg told News24.
But few members of the public were aware that they could file a charge at any police station, and that police can locate offenders within a matter of minutes.
more
