News & alerts

Stay Smart Online Week is an annual event focused on empowering people, businesses and the community to protect themselves online.

Scams Awareness Week runs from 12–16 August 2019.

Scamwatch is warning members of the public about a spate of text messages asking for emergency assistance.

Scams Awareness Week runs from 21–25 May 2018. Australians are urged to be on the lookout for threat-based impersonation scams by taking a moment to ‘Stop and check: is this for real?’.

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.

Australians lost more money to scammers in 2017 than in any other year since the ACCC began reporting on scam activity.

We're warning the Chinese community in Australia to be wary of scammers posing as Chinese authorities and/or employees of DHL and threatening them with deportation or arrest unless they pay large sums of money.

Recent media reports have been warning consumers about overseas missed call (or ‘Wangiri’) scams.

If you lost money to a scammer through Western Union from 2004 to 2017, you may be eligible for a refund. Find out how you can make a claim.