The long -awaited selling crowd at Wellington’s fraud festival

The Wellington Fraud Film Festival will present a documentation collection that covers all types of deception. It is a topic that has become more and more reportable for the New Zealand.

Next next Monday, at Wellington, about 150 people will fill Roxy Cinema for a niche documentary film festival. But they will not be the usual crowd of the Film Film Festival – they will be lawyers, police officers, bankers and anyone else whose job is dealing with fraud or fraud.

The Fraud Film Festival, an offshoot of the original version of the Netherlands festival, takes place in New Zealand in 2016. On the surface, it seems highly specialized. But in reality, fraud is something that touches most people – A BNZ survey last year found that 87 percent of the New Zealand were targeted by scams in the 12 months before.

And for the programmer and producer of the fraud festival, Steve Newall, fraud covers a wider range than consumers scams.

“After you approach the specifics of deception or people who commit fraud offenses, you begin to believe that so many documentaries contain a kind of fraud of one kind or another.

“I think I have a kind of stretch (parameters) some interesting ways in this year’s program. Romantic scams are certainly increasing -I have seen a lot of public disclosure by banks and other outfits to prevent fraud in recent years, but it is still something that has a much more personal impact, which is a bit of financial.”

At this year’s festival, there will be six films, covering a number of topics.

Newall is particularly delighted by two of them.

The first, Stasi FC, “looks at fraud in sports, but not so much from which we could be accustomed, which could be a matching match or scandals,” Newall said.

“Stasi FC is about the Secret Police in East Germany, which is injected in sport in the 70s, trying to eliminate football as a place for freedom of expression and dissident.

“How this becomes a fraud in manipulating the results of football, as much as anything to prove that the state can and will control anything in a autocratic regime.”

The second movie he is talking about is Call The Man with a thousand faces. He is a documentary about a man who cheated four romantic partners, who lives at the same time.

“While they had financial repercussions from this, it is about the emotional impact it had on them,” Newall said.

This year’s documentaries are all international, but Newall says they are still relevant to a New Zealand audience.

William Foterby is president of the festival and a partner at Meredith Connell law firm. In his work, he often helps victims, both people and companies, who have been fraudulent. He is worried about how common the cheaters are here.

“I think the figures on her last year (are) about 200 million dollars lost behind the fraud. And the real problem is that so many people feel very, very reckless, and they realized that they were the victim that they do not report (I choose), choosing rather to reduce their losses and hope that no one will find out.”

He said that there are three main types of fraud that concern him in particular.

“One is quite classic” give me a large amount of money and I will invest it in cryptocurrency. “

“The second thing I see more and more is just the creation of false websites that mirror the known traders.

“The third thing I think is very ordinary, but we will continue to see many of these are these romantic scams, which are called” pork butcher “.

“These messages come from abroad. Often South Asia -est. And there is an entire industry dedicated to this type of scam, targeting countries like New Zealand.”

But there is an added layer to the pork slaughter.

“The person who sent this message could often be the victim of a form of human trafficking and there are compounds reported by people in places such as Vietnam, who are essentially obliged to make these types of messages, to send them and if they do not achieve a certain level of performance, which can have an impact on their own person.

When it comes to self -protection, Foterby said that people should be “very skeptical” of contact from people they do not know and, if they think they were fraudulent, to report it immediately to the bank.

“If you can act quickly, you can often prevent the money from coming out of your account.”

He also warned of the “secondary industry” based on victims who have already been deceived by offering them to recover their money -for a fee, which is, of course, another scam.

The fraud film festival is held on Monday 17 and Tuesday, March 18 at Roxy Cinema.

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