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scammers have been targetting Kiwis claiming to be offering cryptocurrency investments from the NZ Super Fund.
Scammers have been posing as employees of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to con people out of their money.
Though the NZ Super Fund only invests for the Government, scammers have been targetting Kiwis claiming to be offering cryptocurrency investments.
Mark Fennell, general manager for risk at the Guardians, the Crown entity that manages the NZ Super Fund said it was aware of two incdents.
In the first a person was approached on Facebook, and the scammers used fake names and images to solicit investments in the name of the fund, Fennell said.
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“Unfortunately, this individual lost money as a result of this fraud,” Fennell said.
The second incident matched the first, except the Guardians did not know if any of the people targetted lost money.
Fennell said the NZ Super Fund did not, and had never, offered investments of any sort to individuals.
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Nor did the fund trade in cryptocurrency, he said.
The fund was set up to manage money provided by the Crown to partially pre-fund the future cost of NZ Super, New…
