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ACCC: Australians were duped over AU$2.1m to Cryptocurrency-related scams in 2017

Posted by :Henry On : May 21, 2018
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Category: ACCC ASIC ATO, Australia, BITCOIN, DIGITAL MONEY, EMAIL FRAUDS, FRAUDS SCAMS THEFT, ID THEFT, IMPERSONATIONS, IMPOSTERS, LIARS, ONLINE FRAUDS & SCAMS, PAYMENT DEMANDS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, STEAL THEFT, VICTIMS

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A detailed report from Australia’s consumer watchdog found many locals got caught up in ‘pyramid’ cryptocurrency schemes last year, hoping to capitalise on the ‘success’ of bitcoin.

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“As the value of actual cryptocurrencies increased, so too did the scam losses in what people thought were real investments,” the report continued. “By the end of the year, reports of losses related to cryptocurrencies exceeded AU$2.1 million but as with other scams, this is likely the very tip of the iceberg.”

According to the ACCC, examples of cryptocurrency scams in 2017 included fake initial coin offerings (ICOs), which purport to be the launch of a new cryptocurrency.

Other scams, the ACCC said, capitalised on the general confusion about how cryptocurrency works and instead of people discovering how to directly buy cryptocurrencies, many found themselves caught up in what were essentially pyramid schemes.

“A number of reports showed that victims entered into cryptocurrency-based scams through friends and family who convinced them they were onto a good thing, a classic element of pyramid schemes,” the watchdog wrote.

“Not all cryptocurrency-related scams involved victims attempting to invest in stocks or initial coin offerings. Many scammers also ask for payment through cryptocurrencies for a variety of scams because it is easier to remain anonymous while receiving payment.”

An example is paying ransomware through bitcoin.

In total, the ACCC reported Australians lost AU$340 million to scammers in 2017, the highest loss since stats were put on record.

More than 200,000 scam reports were submitted to the ACCC, the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN), and other federal and state-based government agencies in 2017.

Investment scams topped the losses at AU$64 million; while dating and romance scams caused the second greatest losses at AU$42 million.

“Some scams are becoming very sophisticated and hard to spot. Scammers use modern technology like social media to contact and deceive their victims. In the past few years, reports indicate scammers are using aggressive techniques both over the phone and online,” ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard said.

According to the ACCC, Scamwatch received almost 33,000 reports of threat-based impersonation scams in 2017. It said over AU$4.7 million was reported lost and more than 2,800 people gave their personal information to these scammers.

“The ATO will never threaten you with immediate arrest; Telstra will never need to access your computer to ‘fix’ a problem; and Centrelink will never require a fee to pay money it owes you,” Rickard continued. “Finally, none of these organisations will ask you to pay using iTunes gift cards.”

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Watch out: ATO warns against ‘malicious’ new email tax refund scam

Posted by :Henry On : May 21, 2018
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Category: Australia, FRAUDS SCAMS THEFT, IMPOSTERS, LIARS, ONLINE FRAUDS & SCAMS, REFUNDS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, TAX SCAMS

Tags:ato refunds scams, fake tax email scams, tax fraudulent return scams

Scammers are sending fake ATO emails.
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SCAM ALERT! This tax refund phishing scam came through our email today. Don’t click the link. Delete immediately.

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has warned there’s a new scam on the loose and it’s wrecking havoc on people’s computers.

The tax authority says the email scam is disguised as a Tax Refund Notification and aims to trick taxpayers into handing over their bank details by clicking a dodgy link.

“Scammers are sending fake ATO emails asking completion of a ‘tax refund review’ form to receive a refund,” the ATO wrote on its website.

“The form requests online banking credentials, credit card numbers and limits, and personal address information.”

The ATO is advising clients to not click on any links in the email nor save the attachment as it may “download malicious malware onto your computer”.

“Do not disclose the personal information the form is asking for,” they added.

Read more: New missed-call scam is hitting Australia right now

New South Wales police also warned social media users to beware of the scam, with a message on its Facebook page telling people to “delete straight away” if they see the email in their inbox.

The dodgy email isn’t the only ATO scam currently making the rounds. Crafty scammers claiming to be from the ATO are leaving voicemail messages on phones, threatening recipients with arrest if they don’t call back and correct a tax issue.

The ATO issued a recording of the voicemail so people know to be on alert for the fake message.

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“This call is just to inform you that there has been a lawsuit filed against your name concerning a tax evasion and this case is about to get registered in the Commonwealth Courthouse of your territory,” the scammers say in the call. “So before the things go wrong against you or before the police officer from the local police department will approach you and issue a warrant for your arrest, kindly give us a call back on 0283173564. I repeat my telephone number again which is 0283173564. Again this is Jason O’Connor from the Australian Taxation Office. Thank you and you have a wonderful day.”

The ATO is warning recipients to “not return the call” if they receive a voicemail like this.

NZ Man in court over alleged $1.2m scammed from pensioners

Posted by :Henry On : November 30, 2017
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Category: Australia, BOILER ROOM SCAMS, CATCHING SCAMMERS, FRAUDS SCAMS THEFT, INVESTMENT FRAUDS, LIARS, New Zealand, PEOPLE, POLICE, SCAMMERS, STEAL THEFT

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A 48-YEAR-OLD Kiwi has been extradited back from New Zealand to face 21 boiler room fraud charges that police claim stripped retirees of their superannuation and others to the tune of $1.2 million.

The man, who is due to appear in Maroochydore Magistrates Court this afternoon, was the alleged ringleader of the Gold Coast-based scam, police claim.

Victims were lured into the scam with cold calls or by visiting websites set up by the group, Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards alleged.

They were drip fed a small amount of cash to get them to pour more in.

He said the “callous” alleged fraudster had blown most of the $1.2 million on a luxury Gold Coast lifestyle and police did not yet have any assets to strip from the man.

“It was to do with safe racing and betting,” Sen Sgt Edwards said.

“Some of the allegations are that some of the complainants received some of the funding back so they appeared they were getting returns however that was just a phoenix set up. Once an investor put money in they would drip feed some of the other investors money to give the false impression they were getting money,” he alleged.

Snr Sgt Edwards alleged one West Australian victim invested $300,000 into the scam while another Sunshine Coast man in his 70s put in more than $70,000.

A second man has been charged on the Gold Coast.

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Losses from reported Australian hacking victims quadrupled in 2016: ACCC

Posted by :Henry On : May 19, 2017
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Category: BUSINESSES, CREDIT CARDS, DATING SCAMS, EMAIL FRAUDS, FAKE INVOICES, FRAUDS SCAMS THEFT, HACKING SCAMS, ID THEFT, INVESTMENT FRAUDS, INVOICE SCAMS, LIARS, LISTS, MALWARE, ONLINE FRAUDS & SCAMS, PAYMENT DEMANDS, PHISHING SCAMS, PHONE & TEXT SCAMS, RANSOM WARE SCAMS, REPORTS PAPERS, SCAMMERS, SENDING MONEY, VICTIMS

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has reported a four-fold increase in hacking scams, with AU$2.9 million lost to such activity in 2016, up from AU$700,000 in 2015.

According to Targeting scams: Report of the ACCC on scams activity 2016, businesses bore the brunt of these scams, with over half — AU$1.7 million — being attributed to businesses.

“While the digital economy presents many opportunities and efficiencies for businesses, it also presents significant risks,” ACCC deputy chair Delia Rickard says in the report’s foreword.

“Scams targeting businesses are becoming increasingly sophisticated using modern technology to make fake emails, invoices and websites appear legitimate to even the astute business person.”

While the digital age is hitting businesses in Australia, the report [PDF] highlights that consumers are also being affected by scammers, with digitisation providing the opportunity for scammers to try new tricks.

Online scams — those executed via the internet, email, social networks, and mobile apps — outnumbered phone-based scams in 2016, with an increase of 130 percent over 2015.

Elsewhere in the report, losses to online scams accounted for 58 percent — AU$48.4 million — of total losses, while social media was a particularly busy platform used by scammers to lure victims, netting losses of AU$9.5 million in 2016 compared with AU$3.8 million in 2015.

Of the social media scams, the most prevalent were related to online dating and sextortion, a form of blackmail in which compromising images of the victim are used to extort money.

In 2016, Scamwatch received over 440 reports from victims of sextortion in the country.

Phishing scams and identity theft were the most prevalent of all phone scams during the year, with 19,344 reports of scams mostly the result of cold-calling from fake investment firms.

In addition to the increase of scams through social media, the ACCC said emerging trends in 2016 included scams using iTunes and other gift cards, mostly relating to tax scams.

Over 20,000 reports were made to Scamwatch about this type of scam, with 280 reported scams totalling a loss of over AU$1.4 million, with 60 percent of victims admitting they paid the scammer with iTunes gift cards.

Email-based scams were still highly profitable, the ACCC found.

The Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) also received a large number of online scam reports in 2016, with 45,068 scams totalling approximately AU$205 million known to the organisation.

Investment scams, online identity theft, and hacking were some of the largest categories for losses reported by ACORN.

Scam disruption programs operated by the ACCC, South Australian Police, and Western Australian Police, in collaboration with the WA Department of Commerce, use financial intelligence to proactively detect Australians sending funds to high risk jurisdictions, the ACCC said, noting that many of the victims do not report their loss to the ACCC.

“A combined estimate of losses to this unreported scam activity is approximately AU$11.5 million,” the report says. “An aggregate of losses reported to Scamwatch and ACORN, together with unreported losses detected through scam disruption programs show approximate overall losses of almost AU$300 million.”

However, the ACCC, believes this figure is by no means conclusive of the total cost of scams, given many victims do not report their experiences, pointing to a Personal Fraud survey from the Australian Bureau of Statistics that estimated the total amount lost to personal fraud as closer to AU$3 billion.

Those over the age of 65 were reported by the ACCC as being the most vulnerable victims, copping the highest financial loss of AU$13.6 million.

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Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar in this great video presentation

Posted by :Henry On : May 5, 2016
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Category: LIARS, PEOPLE, VIDEOS AUDIOS

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On any given day we’re lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and “hotspots” used by those trained to recognize deception — and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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