{"id":209639,"date":"2025-12-31T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209639\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:34:07","slug":"scammed-sir-ralph-norris-image-used-by-scammers-in-fake-shares-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209639\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammed: Sir Ralph Norris\u2019 image used by scammers in fake shares schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was not aware of any victims, but at least two people \u2013 a woman in New Zealand and a woman in Australia \u2013 had lost a significant sum when scammers last used his name and likeness about 10 years ago, Norris said.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe BNZ banner has also been misappropriated in the scam ads using Sir Ralph Norris’ name and likeness. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately they lost $200,000 each. That was very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris, a former chairman of Contact Energy and Fletcher Building, currently chairs Craigs Investment Partners and the company had contacted Meta on his behalf about the scam ads and posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BusinessBusiness leader Sir Ralph Norris is warning the public of scam “ads” and posts, including this one, posted on social media promoting financial investments using his name and likeness.<\/p>\n

It had also told the Financial Markets Authority, Norris said.<\/p>\n

Sharesies has been informed about the use of its banner in one of the scam ads, he said.<\/p>\n

Like in many other countries, the actions of scammers have become an increasingly worrying trend in recent years.<\/p>\n

Using tactics such as false romances, financial fraud and contacting potential victims claiming to be from their banks, scammers are thought to steal more than $3 billion a year from consumers.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a 30% increase from $2.3b last year.<\/p>\n

Netsafe and the Global Anti-Scam Alliance\u2019s State of Scams in New Zealand report showed scammers are getting more sophisticated \u2013 and victims are facing persistent barriers to reporting and recovering their losses.<\/p>\n

Last month, Netsafe\u2019s Sean Lyons told The Front Page<\/a> about 82% of Kiwis reported experiencing a scam at some point in the last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is not about occasional access, and if you extrapolate the figures, you\u2019re probably talking about a person experiencing over 150 different scam attempts in a year,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a lot of people, it\u2019s probably becoming the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was not aware of any victims, but at least two people \u2013 a woman in New Zealand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1443,138,3595,1887,37483,1644,17518,78,26477,74672,23336,1073,3025,13617,111,139,88039,69,106687,15452,92569,59860,180,8485,1072,127610,14907,35431,13797,3382,8844,1455],"class_list":["post-209639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-about","tag-business","tag-by","tag-countrys","tag-fake","tag-financial","tag-image","tag-in","tag-leaders","tag-likeness","tag-lure","tag-media","tag-most","tag-name","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-norris","tag-nz","tag-ralph","tag-scammed","tag-scammers","tag-schemes","tag-shares","tag-sir","tag-social","tag-sounded","tag-successful","tag-unsuspecting","tag-used","tag-using","tag-victims","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}