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People looking for work are losing money to scammers who pretend to be real organisations or recruiters offering work.
Data from the ACCC’s annual Targeting Scams report, released this week, indicates scammers don’t discriminate and are targeting a range of different communities in Australia.
Australians lost over $634 million to scams in 2019, according to the latest figures in the ACCC’s Targeting Scams report released today.
Scammers swindled nearly $4.7 million from Australian businesses in 2017 according to the ACCC’s latest Targeting scams report – a 23 per cent increase compared to 2016.
SCAMwatch and South Australian Police are warning Australian job hunters to be wary of a mystery shopper job scam.
SCAMwatch warns consumers to be wary of advance fee fraud disguised as bogus job offers.
SCAMwatch is warning consumers to be extremely cautious about getting involved in business opportunity schemes that promise a lot of income for little or no effort.
Scam emails pretending to be from RAC Finance Limited, part of the Western Australian Royal Automobile Club (RAC) are targeting Australians with fake job offers.
Spam emails offering an enticing part time, work-from-home income of $5000 per month have begun to appear in Australian email inboxes.