Realising you’ve been caught in a scam can feel awful,but hiding it and staying quiet helps nobody.
Rinehart has conceded a legal overhaul may be the only way to prevent people from being swindled as she lashed social media giant Facebook for its inaction on scam ads and implied the company should foot the bill.
Andrew Forrest’s legal battle to hold social media giant Meta to account over the proliferation of scam ads using his likeness on Facebook has been dealt a major blow.
Sextortion scammers are using frighteningly simple tricks to target Australian children. The tech giants have “blood on their hands”,the family of one victim claims.
Cruel messages bombarded a NSW teenager’s phone hours before the boy took his own life. A deadly global scam that has killed multiple young men is now in Australia.
Experts warn scammers are targeting victims through drawn-out investment and romance scams – and say social media platforms to step up prevention.
Financial criminals are exploiting Australia’s worsening climate disasters and extreme weather events,including fires,floods and cyclones.
The dressing down came on the back of a new report which found money lost to scams in WA had jumped 36 per cent to a record $22 million.
A new alert system from NAB has saved customers – including many desperate Swifties – a total of $80 million in potential scams.
For about six years,David Saffron – fresh from running a bondage-themed strip club in Los Angeles – is alleged to have styled himself as an expert programmer and trader.
Those trapped were forced to send “sweet nothings” to their victims,peppering them with questions about their day and meals,until they could be convinced to part with money.