Finance

It is "critical" for small businesses to protect their payments with Australia's new eInvoicing protocol, Minister for Financial Services and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones says.

There were 228 reports of imposter bond scams between January and June, compared with 82 reports in the same period last year, Scamwatch revealed on Wednesday.

In an email to customers on Monday, Afterpay said it was “aware of recent increases in fraudulent phishing text and email activity” across the industry.

ACCC boss Gina Cass-Gottlieb has outlined her favoured approach for reducing the ‘financial and emotional devastation’ that scammers cause Australians.

Australia's telecommunications watchdog has registered new rules requiring telcos to identify, track, and block scam SMS attempts, days after warning consumers about a new tide of fake job offer scams being shared via text message.

This article focuses on the five scam types that have grown most in value since 2020.

The defrauded amount in a viral tax scam has blown out to $1 billion as the ATO cracks open a GST con that saw perpetrators claiming money for businesses that didn't exist.

The Australian Taxation Office has warned taxpayers to look out for yet another email scam skimming login information from victims.

The media is rife with cases of scammers and fraudsters, but deep down most business owners think it won’t happen in their company.

The con involved creating a sham business and ABN application, and then submitting falsified business activity statements to receive a fraudulent GST refund.

Flood victims are being warned about a concerning spike in scammers preying on their vulnerability as they clean up in the aftermath of consecutive flood disasters.

The ACCC alleges Meta failed to take sufficient steps to stop displaying scam cryptocurrency ads on Facebook in 2019, even after receiving complaints.