{"id":84061,"date":"2013-08-12T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T07:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=84061"},"modified":"2013-08-12T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T07:57:19","slug":"beware-naked-video-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/84061-beware-naked-video-chat.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware naked video chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of New Zealand internet users have been blackmailed after taking part in naked video chat sessions with overseas scammers, a cyber-safety organisation said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>NetSafe said the scammers threatened to upload webcam footage onto internet websites.<\/p>\n<p>NetSafe said some of the victims had paid up to 500 US dollars to blackmailers as far afield as the Philippines and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very difficult situation to find yourself in &#8211; we&#8217;ve had users afraid of friends and family seeing the videos or losing their jobs. Once an initial sum has been sent through, the requests for more money keep coming,&#8221; <a title=\"NetSafe\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/551557-NetSafe\">NetSafe<\/a> chief executive <a title=\"Martin Cocker\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/551559-Martin-Cocker\">Martin Cocker<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>NetSafe said internet scams of all types had cost New Zealanders a total of 3.5 million US dollars over the last 12 months, about one-third of that related to dating and romance fraud.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More scam articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook lets friends help unlock accounts\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77004-facebook-lets-friends-help-unlock-accounts.html\"><strong>Facebook lets friends help unlock accounts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/76118-sa-police-in-facebook-spat.html\">SA police in Facebook spat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/74997-facebook-home-the-trojan-horse.html\">Facebook Home, the Trojan Horse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of New Zealand internet users have been blackmailed after taking part in naked video chat sessions with overseas scammers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":83219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,20901,20903],"class_list":["post-84061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-scammers","tag-video-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84073,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84061\/revisions\/84073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}