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The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce (ACFT) today launched scams awareness month, a 4 week initiative to help you protect yourself from scams.

Valentine's Day is here again, but unwary romantics beware … you could end up losing more than your heart if you fall for a fraud.

Spam emails offering an enticing part time, work-from-home income of $5000 per month have begun to appear in Australian email inboxes.

Classified ads offering Bulldog and Yorkie puppies are one of the latest scams making their way into local newspapers across the country and on-line classifieds.

Beware of newspaper advertisements for online sales of electronic goods at 'too good to be true' prices.

Scammers often use the names of non-existent realistic sounding institutions like “the Federal Bank of South Africa” or “the European Consumer Protection Bureau”.

SCAMwatch has seen a steady increase in reports about lottery scams, particularly from older Australians. If you receive a lottery scam, delete or destroy it.

There is no guaranteed way to make money from betting on the horses— but there are some scammers around who want you to believe that there is.

Have you recently received a spam email offering you work as a 'transfer manager' or 'financial' manager for an overseas company? These 'job offers' are scams!