Search Sort by: DateRelevance Threat based scams targeting young people and Chinese community Australians have lost over $8.8 million to threat based scams so far this year, and young people are reporting the highest losses. 26 Oct 2020 National Scams Awareness Week: 'This is Not Your Life' The ACCC has launched a podcast series for this year’s National Scams Awareness Week to provide Australians with tips on how to protect their personal and financial details from scammers. 17 Aug 2020 COVID-19 (coronavirus) scams Unfortunately, scammers are taking advantage of the spread of coronavirus to exploit and play on the fears of consumers across Australia. 18 Mar 2020 Scam category Attempts to gain your personal information 2 Hacking 1 Identity theft 1 Phishing 2 Remote access scams 1 Buying or selling 2 Classified scams 1 False billing 1 Online shopping scams 2 Dating & romance 1 Fake charities 1 Investments 1 Investment scams 1 Threats & extortion 1 Threats to life, arrest or other 1 Date 2020 3 October 2020 1 August 2020 1 March 2020 1 News type Media releases 11 Radar alerts 9 Features 3 Small business 1 Subscribe
Threat based scams targeting young people and Chinese community Australians have lost over $8.8 million to threat based scams so far this year, and young people are reporting the highest losses. 26 Oct 2020
National Scams Awareness Week: 'This is Not Your Life' The ACCC has launched a podcast series for this year’s National Scams Awareness Week to provide Australians with tips on how to protect their personal and financial details from scammers. 17 Aug 2020
COVID-19 (coronavirus) scams Unfortunately, scammers are taking advantage of the spread of coronavirus to exploit and play on the fears of consumers across Australia. 18 Mar 2020
