He said while some crime types decreased, others increased as criminals exploited Covid-19 for their own gain.“As customers turned to online shopping and settling payments on apps, criminals enhanced their efforts to phish customers to steal their personal data to defraud them on digital and online platforms,” said Mewalall.
He said when lockdown restrictions were lifted to level 3 in June, CIT incidents suddenly spiked with 40 incidents reported during August and December last year. Gauteng remained the province with the highest number of reported CIT robbery incidents followed by the Eastern Cape , Mpumalanga , KwaZulu-Natal , Western Cape , Limpopo , Free State , North West and Northern Cape .
“Although robberies and burglaries showed a decrease, I call on members of the public to be weary of fake websites and phishing emails, as criminals are becoming increasingly more innovative in catching unsuspecting customers,” he said.
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