Being targeted by scam artists is becoming more common by the day. 

Cyber fraud, often led by international cartels, has been able to grow to such an extent that everybody has a story of a message or odd phone call that was aiming to take advantage of them. 

It isn’t helping that Police in New Zealand are under-resourced and not focused on this type of crime, with a report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority finding a “vacuum in national leadership on fraud.” 

So how can we take digital fraud seriously, and is it something that our political parties are even thinking of? 

Crime expert Dr Jarrod Gilbert, a sociologist at the University of Canterbury and Director of Independent Research Solutions, is calling for change in how we police cyber fraud.

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