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About 22 per cent of consumers aged 16-60, who are active on social media, have purchased counterfeit goods endorsed by influencers, a new study said on Thursday.In the study, the researchers of the University of Portsmouth found that ...

About 22 per cent of consumers aged 16-60, who are active on social media, have purchased counterfeit goods endorsed by influencers.

New Delhi, August 10 (IANS): About 22 per cent of consumers aged 16-60, who are active on social media, have purchased counterfeit goods endorsed by influencers, a new study said on Thursday.

New ‘Think Before you Link’ App will help businesses and the public protect themselves from potential espionage .

 E-Mail Fraud is going uninvestigated by police who are "hiding behind the veil" of the Action Fraud national crime reporting agency. In his paper published this week in Policing, Professor Mark Button, director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth argues that, Action Fraud, which has been widely derided, has become a useful veil from which the police can hide their inadequate response. Figures from Action Fraud, the arm of the police responsible for reco...

boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images The CEO of South African bitcoin trading planform MTI, which was provisionally liquidated in late December after it stopped paying out funds to thousands of members, has not been heard from in four weeks. The groups head of communications and marketing says only Johann Steynberg can answer the question of anxious MTI investors.   While MTI has in the past denied it was a ponzi scheme, a professor of counter fraud studies says get-rich-quick schemes are likel...