What Pausier can help with
Pausier can help you pause, review pressure signs, avoid risky actions, and verify through official or trusted routes before acting.
Country overview
New Zealand
Local scam-pressure notes, official support routes where verified, reviewed alerts, and local stories are shown only where Pausier has existing reviewed data.
What Pausier cannot do
Pausier cannot confirm whether something is safe or unsafe, recover money, contact authorities, replace official reporting, or guarantee an outcome.
Local context
Support routes and alerts are shown where they exist in Pausier's reviewed data. If review is missing, Pausier shows fallback guidance instead of inventing links.
Support in your country
Support in New Zealand
Use reviewed routes to verify independently, report suspicious contact, and protect accounts or payments.
Reviewed support is partially available for this country.
Coverage note: National cyber incident routes are verified. Wider official scam-routing coverage is still incomplete.
Report fraud/cybercrime
Report an online issue through New Zealand's national cyber route
Use the official reporting tool for individuals and businesses to report online security issues in New Zealand.
New Zealand national cyber reporting line
Use the CERT NZ phone route if you need help using the official incident-reporting tool.
Official phone number: 0800 237 868
Keep evidence
Keep screenshots, message text, timestamps, sender details, payment references, and any case numbers.
Use official channels you already trust, such as the organisation's official website, app, card number, or local authority website.
Do not use links, numbers, or contact details supplied by the suspicious message or caller.
If money may be at risk, contact your bank or payment provider first using an official route you already trust.
If there is immediate danger, use local emergency services or a trusted local authority route.
Official alerts
Official alerts for New Zealand
Official alert coverage is still expanding for this country. Pausier keeps the area visible so users can see the limit clearly instead of assuming alerts exist everywhere.
Local stories where available
Reviewed stories for New Zealand
Fake police cash collection
When the caller claimed to be police and asked for cash or financial information.
Source: New Zealand PoliceFake term-deposit offer
When the website or caller asked for a transfer into a new account for the supposed deposit.
Source: New Zealand PoliceSpark and police phone scam
When the caller said police needed help setting a trap and requested money movement.
Source: New Zealand PoliceNZ task-scam loss
Before paying the first training or progress fee to unlock higher-value tasks and commissions.
Source: New Zealand PoliceFake bank deposit
Before transferring savings to the new account details provided after the online term-deposit enquiry.
Source: New Zealand PoliceSource list
Review the sources Pausier can show.
Official support route sources and alert sources appear in the panels above when verified data exists for this country.
See something wrong or missing? Report a source issue so it can be reviewed before country guidance is changed.
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