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05 Jan 2018 …Betting & sports investment schemes: Adam’s taken for a ride on a horse betting scam … by reports of past performance or graphs showing high returns. Just hang up, press delete and … betting.’ After many more calls to the helpline, they would no longer return Adam's phone calls. ‘But then…
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…
27 Aug 2018 … being used to send scam messages. This is where they say with the victim’s help, they can use the … online banking. Some are also tricked into providing iTunes gift card numbers over the phone to these … they refuse to help and may even face legal consequences. These types of scam can be very scary, as…
26 Feb 2018 … let it ring once then hang up without leaving a message, so a missed call will appear on your phone … phone, by mail, fax, email, in person or on a social networking site, always consider the possibility that the approach may be a scam. Spread the word to your friends and family to protect them. … Report a scam page.…
24 May 2018 …Scam reports … The categories with the most threat-based impersonation scam reports in 2017 were: … agency or trusted business, always consider the possibility that it may be a scam – then stop and check…
24 Apr 2018 … highest number of incidents of the fake billing scam, with 1779 households reporting being victims … fake utility billing scam incidents,” Ms Rickard said. “I advise consumers to contact their … the phone book.” In one case reported to the ACCC, a customer received a fake Telstra bill in the mail…
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…