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Newstalk ZB’s Early Edition host Kate Hawkesby has been caught up in a Facebook scam which is impersonating her and telling people they’ve won a share of $20,000.
But Facebook, owned by Meta, doesn’t believe the scam is fake, Hawkesby said in a column for Newstalk ZB’s website.
The scammer made a Facebook page pretending to be Hawkesby, and appeared to use photos of her from Google.
She said they were commenting on her show page, Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby, and telling commentators they’d won a cash prize. All they had to do, it claimed, was enter their credit card details to a provided link.
Hawkesby said she was only made aware of the scam when people started messaging her on Instagram expressing how excited they were to be selected.
“I spent a good chunk of yesterday messaging people back explaining sadly they’d not won anything,” she wrote. “But I can understand their confusion, scammers are clever, the pictures are mine, the ZB logo is there, it’s got ripped off sponsor IDs stamped all over it … it looks legit.”
Hawkesby reported the fake page to the social media platform.
But, according to the radio host, Facebook said it didn’t believe the page was fake and said there was nothing to investigate.
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