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Rahul Gandhi has demanded an investigation into a stock market crash that hit investors on 4 June.
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"Scam-baiter" Jim Browning takes Background Briefing inside the world of cybercrime and exposes the tactics used to con Australians out of nearly $3 billion a year.
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The BBC investigates Ruja Ignatova’s close ties to a suspected organised crime boss.
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Tourists have always presented easy targets, but the methods of the con artists have changed over the past 300 years or so.
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A chance encounter on a bus landed an octogenarian with a prized parcel of land near Thredbo in a messy court fight with a younger couple.
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Scams have become so sophisticated and numerous these days, so why is there still a stigma around those who fall victim to them?
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A US oil rig worker, a fake UK bank account and a supposed $3 million fortune. Lane Nichols investigates how an elaborate international romance scam cos
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Fraudsters are increasingly using AI, but are people taking the problem seriously enough?
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He flaunted his lavish lifestyle, buying his parents a Bentley, until it all fell apart with his kidnapping and arrest.
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A “devastated” private school principal is accusing Westpac of negligence and considering legal action after he and his wife lost $323,000 in a
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Imitation websites can look exactly like the homepages of shoppers’ favourite brands, and more Australians are falling victim to them.
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Last year, Australians lost $2.74 billion to scams, with a 150% increase in losses to job scams, in particular. Here’s what you need to know about these insidious tactics.
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The number of scams reported by Australians has hit a new record high, even though the amount lost has declined.
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A retired South Island cop and a Northland pensioner lost at least $300,000 in a large-scale fraud linked to a young Auckland mother whose bank
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Scammers on Facebook and Instagram are using a fake, AI-generated Dr Karl to sell health pills to Australians. When users reported the ads to Meta, the company initially said there was nothing wrong with them.
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The Australian billionaire’s criminal case against Meta in WA was discontinued on Friday by the commonwealth prosecutor
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Hundreds of local investors are chasing their investments in two separate schemes, including one run by a man who says he’s a former NASA scientist.
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Andrew Ryder's rainy-day bank account was drained in just one day. It happened via phone porting and SIM-swap fraud, but the veteran has no idea how scammers had his data in the first place.
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Peter Correy was tricked into sending $450,000 to an Australian oil company. A financial crime expert warns criminals are exploiting weaknesses in Australia's regulatory system to get away with laundering.
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You've probably noticed scammers love sending text messages. Text messages were used to steal $26.9 million from Australians last year. So what are phone companies doing about it?
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Vials of replica weight loss drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro are being illegally shipped across the world from a house on the outskirts of Sydney.
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In response to the proliferation of sweatshop-style online scam centres in South-East Asia, individual volunteers and groups have stepped up — often at great personal risk.
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The dishevelled former wunderkind fooled Silicon Valley and stole billions from customers, a court found.
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When Paul called ING with a question about his cryptocurrency investment, the bank's scam team was alerted. Now, after losing nearly $500,000 to a romance scam, Paul argues the bank could have stopped it.
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For the first time in almost 30 years, part of Donald Trump’s business empire has gone public. Trading started with a bang.
How fast will the share price go down?