South African businesses have noted an increase in corporate identity theft incidents over the past year, according to the 2015 Metrofile Information and Records Management Index.
Amazon is taking legal action against more than 1 000 people it claims provide fake reviews on its Web site. The online retail giant says in the lawsuit – filed in the US on Friday – its brand reputation was being tarnished by “false, misleading and inauthentic” reviews.
Cape Town journalist and documentary filmmaker, Yazeed Kamaldien from Schaapkraal, Philippi, told the Cape Argus of his three-month battle with Standard Bank after he noticed an amount of R14 937.52 was missing from his account shortly after returning from a two-week trip to Brazil.