Australian retail brands continue to be hit by fake text message and email scams that claim to offer shoppers free gift cards, with hundreds…
Australian retail brands continue to be hit by fake text message and email scams that claim to offer shoppers free gift cards, with hundreds…
By Dominic Powell and Emma Koehn
Last week’s federal budget included details revealing the government has scrapped plans to make chang…
Businesses have been warned by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to keep an eye out for a new scam hitting mailboxes…
By Cassandra Cross, Queensland University of Technology and Kelly Richards, Queensland University of Technology
Reporting a crime should…
Watch out for scammers pretending to be your service providers and sending you fake invoices. Unfortunately there’s no shortage of people on…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned about a recent series of hoax emails claiming the recipient is entitled to a p…
Have you received a call or email out of the blue from someone claiming to be from a government department or business such as an energy pro…
It could come in the form of a random email, a suspicious text or even a dated fax, but one thing’s for sure, scammers are on the hunt and…
Who has not experienced the scam phone call from someone purporting to want to fix a problem with Windows on your PC, or help you recoup a l…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says it received 22,000 more complaints about scams in 2010 than it did in 2009, and has …
