Cyber scams in the era of COVID-19

Caught out: Scammers are exploiting the pandemic to pounce on victims PIC: WWW.INFORMATION-AGE.COM
Caught out: Scammers are exploiting the pandemic to pounce on victims PIC: WWW.INFORMATION-AGE.COM

Botswana like the rest of the world was caught by surprise by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The rapid speed at which the virus spreads and the fact that there is yet no vaccine or cure for the disease has meant that the government has had to implement extra ordinary measures to combat it, that include amongst others, extreme social distancing or lockdown.

 Fighting the disease also means that government must make emergency purchases of medical equipment and supplies to deal with the disease, which is mostly done through local companies.

Editor's Comment
Is our screening adequate?

Sadly, we live in a society that seems to be losing its moral fibre by the day.When parents take their children to a boarding school they do so to give them a brighter future, not to have some dirty paedophilic predator to prey on them. Sex orientation is a touchy subject and for young minds to be sexualised at a young age by a grown man perpetrating harm on them by cutting through their sphincter muscle to penetrate their anal canal. Anyone can...

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