Last year, men were more likely to report losses to investment fraud, while women were the main target for romance fraud. Overall, men reported higher financial loss.
Scammers impersonating the Australian Taxation Office have fleeced Australians of more than $830,000.
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As curious social animals, humans are more trusting of people than we should be – especially when we're dealing with people over the phone, email or via SMS, in the absence of body language.
Fraudsters use specific social engineering tactics to gain the trust of their victims.
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A new scam tricks families based overseas into paying a ransom for Chinese students in Australia who have supposedly been kidnapped.
Jamaica’s lotto scammers have gotten rich tricking American seniors and gamblers into thinking they’ve won the lotto, then demanding a modest ‘processing fee.’
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Lotto scamming — a criminal enterprise largely targeting elderly Americans — is lucrative in western Jamaica, where it is thought to be behind 50 percent of all area murders last year.