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Scammers pretending to represent Medicare and Centrelink

Recently, Medicare and Centrelink have received reports of scammers posing as employees asking recipients for their personal information.
21 May 2010

Climate change grants and other government grants

SCAMwatch has joined with the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and the Commonwealth Grants Commission to warn consumers about anyone who approaches them with the offer of ‘grants for climate change’ or other government grants.
17 Feb 2010

Australian Taxation Office tax refund online!

SCAMwatch is warning Australians to be on the lookout for an email purporting to be from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) trying to trick consumers into providing their private details.
3 Feb 2010

Bogus anti-virus alerts

Scamwatch is warning consumers to be wary of bogus security software or 'scareware'.
11 Nov 2009

Travelling to the USA?

SCAMwatch is warning all prospective travellers to the United State of America to be wary of unauthorised third party websites.
11 Nov 2009

Facebook password scam email

SCAMwatch is warning Facebook subscribers about a hoax email they may receive under the guise of a password reset email.
29 Oct 2009

Visa Europe survey bonus scam

VISA Europe survey bonus scam
28 Oct 2009

Trevor Smallwood hoax email

SCAMwatch is warning consumers about an email allegedly from the Australian Federal Police.
27 Oct 2009

Patrick Swayze and other celebrity scams—be on guard online

SCAMwatch is urging consumers to be on guard online, even when searching celebrity news items. The latest celebrity scam exploits the death of Patrick Swayze.
17 Sep 2009

Australian Taxation Office—door-to-door scam warning

SCAMwatch is warning Australians to be aware of a door-to-door scam.
11 Aug 2009

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