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Find out more about the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce and its subgroups, members and partners.

The annual scams survey helped the ACFT to improve the prevention, detection and investigation of scam activities.

The first week of March 2010 is National Consumer Fraud Week. This year's campaign has the theme 'Online Offensive—Fighting Online Fraud' and will focus on raising awareness of online consumer fraud and scams.

The first week of March 2009 was the National Consumer Fraud Week

Fraud Fortnight focused on scams that seduced and deceived through promises of things like great prizes, true love or easy money.

Scams target you! There seems to be a scam created to trap just about everyone.

Results of an ABS survey on Personal Fraud show consumer fraud has become a major concern.


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