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Farmers has asked customers to beware of a fake Santa Parade Facebook page asking for money and posting dodgy “live stream” links.
The annual Auckland Santa Parade, run by Farmers, will take place at 1pm on Sunday, but a fake page created by scammers called “Farmers Santa Parade 2020” has been asking people to click on livestream links. and share your credit card details.
On its official page, Farmers asked customers to report the page to Facebook while it worked with the social media giant to remove the page.
“There is a fake Farmers Santa Parade page and an event promoting a ‘live stream’ link asking you to provide your credit card details. It is a scam, there is no live online broadcast of the Farmers Santa Parade, ”posted the official Farmers Facebook page.
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Returning for the 87th year, Auckland’s largest parade will have about 4,000 participants.
The fake page was created on November 16 and had around 100 likes and followers on Facebook.
Returning for the 87th year, Auckland’s largest parade will have about 4,000 participants.
There has been a sharp increase in the number of investment scams trying to impersonate real New Zealand businesses since the onset of Covid-19.
SCREENSHOT
Farmers has warned customers about this fake Santa Parade Facebook page asking people for money through its live streaming links.
The Financial Markets Authority issued 61 investment scam warnings between April and early November this year, of which approximately one-third (21) were “imposter scams,” where the names and details of legitimate businesses are used to mislead. to investors.
Only 40 warnings were made in the same time period last year, and only four were imposter scams.
