Australia's biggest telco is ramping up its defences against "scambling" - one of the fastest-growing scams used by bad ...

Australian victims of scams who lose up to $3,000 could be automatically reimbursed under a proposed federal government ...

While the number of reported fraud cases is down, Australians lost 28% more money to online scams in the first four months of the year, compared to the same period in 2024. See Also: Small Business.

Cryptocurrency scammers have impersonated Australian police and exploited government infrastructure to pressure victims into handing over their digital assets, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said ...

Australia’s Scam Prevention Framework aims to protect consumers by holding tech, banking, and telecom sectors accountable, with fines up to $50 million. Introduced by the Australian government in ...

Australians scammed out of A$3,000 or less could be able to claim automatic reimbursement from banks, phone companies or tech companies, under a new federal government proposal. Last year, there were ...

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) unveiled a new weapon in the fight against scams: a fleet of thousands of AI-powered bot profiles, deployed by Apate.ai – a cyber-intelligence firm and ...

The Development: On 13 February 2025, the Australian Federal Parliament passed the Scams Prevention Bill 2025 (Cth) ("Bill"), the first of its kind worldwide. The Context: The Bill comes after the ...

Australia is grappling with a rising tide of scams, and new data from Westpac has pinpointed the nation’s scam hotspots, with Sydney’s Central Business District (CBD) emerging as the most scammed ...

Nigerian email scams have become nearly as commonplace as the Internet itself. But one Australian woman wound up in jail after turning the tables--to the tune of $30,000--on a group of con artists.

A bank-draining scam is targeting the private financial details of sellers on Facebook Marketplace. Fraudsters make contact ...

Barely a year ago, in the quaint past of early, industrial-scale ­cybercrime, an investment or “pig butchering” romance con ...