Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Yesterday I had a very strange experience, Facebook-related. A scammer is pretending to be me, commenting on my show page, as me, telling commenters that they’ve won a cash prize. Apparently, fake me is giving away $20,000 in cash prizes. All you need to do is give ‘fake me’ your credit card details. Trust me, if I had 20 thousand dollars to give way right now, it would be to Ukrainian refugees, not people on Facebook.  So this fake Kate Hawkesby, which has pictures of me ripped off Google, is out there in the wild west of the internet trying to scam people. I only got clued into this when people started messaging me yesterday on Instagram telling me they were so excited to have been selected. I asked them to send me the link, and thus unravelled the fake news trickery that’s out there in my name.  Here’s the really awful bit. Facebook won’t believe me that it’s a scam.  My boss contacted our security team here at NZME, he contacted the digital people, he reported the fake account and the scam to Facebook its