Fake car auctions and disappearing data: Wendy Knowler’s 'watch-outs of the week'

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In this weekly segment of bite-sized chunks of useful information, consumer journalist Wendy Knowler summarises news you can use.

It read: “2018 Toyota Corolla 1.5 Prestige auto for sale, R29,000. Buy before auction.”

Jacques van der Linde, who sits on the board of the SA Institute of Auctioneers, said it’s important for consumers to know that an auctioneer may not withdraw a bank repossessed car from a scheduled auction and sell it to an interested party under any circumstances. They used three identical Huawei Mate 20 Pro devices to ensure an equivalent testing environment for all operators and all three devices were updated, and factory reset.All updates were disabled, and all the apps were individually denied mobile network access.

No mobile data was used on the MTN and Vodacom phones, but small amounts of data disappeared throughout the Cell C test.According to MyBroadband editor Jan Vermeulen, Cell C’s chief technology officer Schalk Visser said they recorded what he termed “valid chargeable usage” on their data network for the test device.

 

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