{"id":10768,"date":"2026-02-19T07:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/south-africans-scammed-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:04:34","slug":"south-africans-scammed-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/south-africans-scammed-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 40% of South Africans Were Scammed in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    More Than 40% of South Africans Were Scammed in 2025<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Survey underscores the reality that scammers follow &#8220;scalable opportunities and low friction,&#8221; rather than rich targets that tend to be better protected.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cybersecurity-analytics\/south-africans-scammed-2025\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Than 40% of South Africans Were Scammed in 2025 Survey underscores the reality that scammers follow &#8220;scalable opportunities and low friction,&#8221; rather than rich targets that tend to be better protected. Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-10768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}