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About the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce
Find out more about the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce and its subgroups, members and partners.
ACFT scams survey
The annual scams survey helped the ACFT to improve the prevention, detection and investigation of scam activities.
ACFT campaign 2010: Online Offensive—Fighting Online Fraud!
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.
ACFT campaign 2009—National Consumer Fraud Week
The first week of March 2009 was the National Consumer Fraud Week
ACFT campaign 2008—fraud fortnight
Fraud Fortnight focused on scams that seduced and deceived through promises of things like great prizes, true love or easy money.
ACFT campaign 2007—Scams target you!
Scams target you! There seems to be a scam created to trap just about everyone.
Global scams hit Australians' pockets - Losses at 1 Billion dollars
Results of an ABS survey on Personal Fraud show consumer fraud has become a major concern.
ACFT 2010 Calendar of Events
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