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The scammers instructed Taranaki grandmother Jill Creasy to take this photo to demonstrate she was not being coerced into purchasing Bitcoin.
Caption:The scammers instructed Taranaki grandmother Jill Creasy to take this photo to demonstrate she was not being coerced into purchasing Bitcoin.Photo credit:SuppliedStills from a deepfake AI video showing Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters purportedly encouraging Kiwis to invest in cryptocurrency. The video was the subject of a public scam warning in August by the Financial Markets Authority. Lane Nichols DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS / SENIOR JOURNALIST NOTE: NOT FOR GENERAL USE - AI DEEPFAKE VIDEO GRABS ALERTSupplied / FMAJill Creasy of New Plymouth, who lost $224,000 in an investment scam.SuppliedChristopher Luxon says he would never endorse a particular investment.RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
Fake RNZ news about Hayley Holt circulating on the hijacked Facebook page of Trevor Mallard.
Kirat Assi fell victim to an elaborate catfishing scheme that lasted eight years.
The page of Ticketmaster regarding the Oasis concerts is displayed on the screen of a laptop in London, England, on September 7, 2024.
A microphone with the RNZ logo on it.
A sophisticated smishing scam using technology never before seen in New Zealand has been disrupted in a coordinated, multi-agency effort, preventing widescale financial losses.
A handout image released on June 23, 2026 by the European Space Agency and taken on March 23, 2025 for a period of 26 hours by the Euclid’s optical camera VIS to wich the colours were added using observations captured in the summer of 2025 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope’s MegaCam camera (CFHT-Megacam) in Hawaii shows our Milky Way galaxy’s centre. 60 million stars, billions of visible galaxies and image quality never seen before: on June 24, 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled the centre of the Milky Way, which should enable the identification of new exoplanets. (Photo by Handout / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY” - HANDOUT - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
An illustration photo shows the YouTube logo displayed on a smartphone in Suqian, China, on March 6, 2025. (Photo Illustration by Costfoto/NurPhoto) (Photo by CFOTO / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)
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Coogee Beach shark attack victim Leah Stewart with her daughter before the June 2026 shark attack
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Juan Manuel Leon Sandoval’s case was heard in the Hamilton District Court.
A soldier looks through binoculars during combat exercises and training of the navy of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the waters around the Taiwan Island, 5 August, 2022. T