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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Tuesday 30 June 2026

Report phishing to the police, public urged

A police expert on computer crime, Senior Superintendent Beaunard Grobler, has urged computer users to report cybercrime, including phishing incidents.

ITWeb quotes him as saying ‘all police are trained in dealing with cybercrime. There is also information on the police intranet on how to handle such investigations’. Grobler, commander of the police\'s national cyber crime unit, told an Information Security Group meeting his unit supported detectives in two ways – reactively, through computer forensics that allows for the time-stamped recovery of incriminating data without altering the original files or documents in any way, and proactively, through ‘evidential operations’ to trace or entrap paedophiles and phishers. Full ITWeb report