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04 Dec 2018 … with phone calls or emails they receive threatening arrest or jail over unpaid tax debts. Tax scams seem to be everywhere at the moment and Scamwatch is warning people not to engage with phone calls or … significantly during the past month. The scam is timed to coincide with the cut-off date for people needing to…
06 Apr 2018 … passports, it is a scam. Do not send them any money. Instead, hang up the phone immediately and report it to Scamwatch. Never give your personal, credit card or online account details over the phone unless you made the call and the phone number came from a trusted source. If you think you have provided your bank … they pay large sums of money. The scammer contacts their victim via phone and communicates in Mandarin…
21 May 2018 … reporting on scam activity. Australians lost more money to scammers in 2017 than in any other year since the ACCC began reporting on scam activity. According to the ACCC’s ninth annual Targeting scams report , released today, more than 200,000 scam reports were submitted to the ACCC, Australian Cybercrime Online…
11 Dec 2018 … don’t exist. This scam has cost Australians nearly $3 million in 2018, with more than 8,700 reports … , nearly $135,000 has been lost to this scam. Parcel delivery scams: scammers may ask you to print off … scams and $400,000 was reported lost,” Ms Rickard said. “This isn’t a usual holiday season scam, however…
23 May 2018 … ACCC’s Scamwatch website received 1810 scam reports in 2017 from Indigenous people with losses totalling nearly $1.7 million – a 14 per cent increase compared to 2016. “Reports of scam activity to the ACCC from Indigenous people has, unfortunately, never been higher,” ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard said. The scam…
18 Jun 2018 … have come from NSW, Victoria, Queensland or Western Australia; however the scam is targeting people … more than doubled,” ACCC Acting Chair Delia Rickard said. There are two main variations of this scam … reports of a cruel variation of this scam targeting Chinese students in Australia,” Ms Rickard said. “The…