ZICTA UP YOUR GAME LAST Saturday, Rae Hamoonga, the Zambia Police spokesperson told the nation that the law enforcement agency working with ZICTA (Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority) had arrested a 22-year old man of Lusaka for a cybercrime in which he stole over K22, 000 from unsuspecting members of the public. Many people are familiar with unsolicited text messages or WhatsApp links sent to them either promising them money or other enticing benefits. Countless people have fallen victim to such schemes and scammers always seem to be ahead in terms of devising new ways of duping people like sending fake messages depicting money transfer when in fact not. ZICTA seems to have been trailing behind scammers and hackers despite a Cyber Security Task Force being in place. Some people have lost huge sums of money and ZICTA has failed to trace or prosecute the perpetrators. Others have been victims of extortion by way […]