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Scams Awareness Week 2021 takes place 8-12 November. This Scams Awareness Week we’re encouraging everyone to start a conversation about scams.

Since August 2021, many Australians have been getting scam text messages about tracking a delivery, missed calls or voicemails, along with a link to download some software. If you receive one of these messages, do not click or tap on the link.

Police have received reports of scams involving fake Australian Federal Police (AFP) representatives targeting vulnerable members of the community.

Last year scammers stole close to $34 million collectively from people who identified as culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), people with disability, and Indigenous Australians.

Australians lost over $851 million to scams in 2020, a record amount, as scammers took advantage of the pandemic to con unsuspecting people, according to the ACCC’s latest Targeting Scams report released today.

Australians have lost over $8.8 million to threat based scams so far this year, and young people are reporting the highest losses.

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.

Australians under 25 lost over $5 million to scams in 2019 and reports made from this age group are increasing faster than older generations.

澳洲競爭和消費者委員會（ACCC）的詐騙監察服務（Scamwatch）提醒澳洲華裔社區警惕兩種令人感到驚訝的騙局，這兩種騙局都涉及以假綁架和逮捕威脅進行敲詐勒索。