Police ‘too busy’ to act on
fraudulent email in MP’s name
A fake email soliciting
funds in the name of United Future MP Murray Smith has been
reported to Auckland police who have said that they are too
busy to handle it, the Wellington list MP revealed
today.
“This is real crime. It has been reported and the
police say they can’t handle it. Now that’s a serious
worry,” Mr Smith said, adding that he now knew of two
organisations that had received it, one of which had
reported it to the police.
“I must say this is becoming an
all too common refrain from the police and is very
concerning as we’re talking fraud here,” he said.
Mr Smith
he would now report the matter to the police himself in the
hope that it would be pursued.
“This is part of a very
worrying trend in terms of what the police say they can and
cannot do - and it really is seriously eroding public
confidence,” he
said.
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