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Scams

August 2024

  • ATO sign

    Scammers are targeting myGov accounts during tax time. How can users protect their ATO refunds?

    Criminals change phone and email details to prevent users from receiving myGov notifications – before altering tax returns and bank account details

July 2024

  • Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones addresses the National Press Club

    Labor’s planned anti-scam laws are too complicated, too lenient and too slow, advocates say

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    I’ve been scammed, you’ve been scammed – and it’s about to get much worse

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • In a National Press Club address on online scamming, assistant treasurer Stephen Jones says a fake Facebook page charged people to attend funeral online

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    Online scammers targeted funeral of Labor MP Peta Murphy, says assistant treasurer – video

  • Woman using mobile phone

    Labor vows to force banks to compensate Australians tricked out of money by scammers

  • Ofcom clamps down on millions of scam ‘spoofed number’ calls from abroad

  • Consumer champions
    Uber Eats has failed to deliver after a £19,000 fraud

  • Mobile banking: alarm as fraudsters take over handsets and raid accounts

  • Sarah lost her savings to a ‘money mule’ scam. She says Australia’s big banks have brushed her off

  • Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers

  • ‘It’s very troubling’: thieves use vulnerable man to take out £28,000 bank loan

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    A stranger seems to have taken over our address

June 2024

  • A hand holding a mobile phone

    Criminal gangs who ‘shoulder-surf’ pin numbers steal ‘20 smartphones a day’

    Gang leader says £50,000 can be made in half an hour by watching a user enter a pin and then stealing their device
  • Andrew Forrest

    Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest can sue Meta over Facebook scam ads, US court rules

    The Australian mining magnate can try to prove that Meta was negligent in allowing scam ads on Facebook, judge says
  • Village of Oia on Santorini Island

    Beware WhatsApp and fake listings: how to avoid holiday fraud

    From phantom villas to too-good-to-be-true offers, here’s how to make sure your booking is the real thing

May 2024

  • Image of phone on wooden table with online marketplace selling second hand goods open

    Next UK government should introduce scams legislation, says City lobby group

    Group wants big tech social media firms to pay millions a year to reimburse customers after years of shouldering cost of fraud
  • Metro failed to act when a scam involving one of its accounts was reported.

    Consumer champions
    Metro Bank ignored my report of attempted scam

    Although fraudsters gave one of its account numbers, it was totally uninterested as I was not its customer

    • UK drivers warned to watch out for ‘crash for cash’ fraud claims

    • Demand for Taylor Swift’s UK tour could fuel summer ticket fraud bonanza

    • Fraud rife on secondhand marketplaces Depop, Preloved, and Shpock

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