Con woman targets boys

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Christchurch teenage boys are being targeted by a woman pretending to be a teenage girl so she can get their parents' credit card details.

The woman used social network website Facebook to contact at least 10 boys aged 13 to 16, the Press reported.

The woman uses a fake account complete with false pictures.

St Thomas of Canterbury College principal Christine O'Brien called in police after finding some of her students had been fooled. She warned parents the woman was "a sexual, physical, psychological and financial danger".