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Symantec warns on tax time cybercrime

Leading protection software provider Symantec has urged consumers and businesses to be more vigilant around tax year end after the group's research found more sophisticated and heightened phishing attacks around 30 June. The term 'phishing' refers to ...

FinLit Foundation launches into workplaces

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
The Financial Literacy Foundation is emerging from behind the scenes and is launching a booklet to help financial literacy in the workplace, stepping up its efforts to work with the tertiary education sector and is even launching dramatic productions ...

Email scams on ASIC hitlist

... the next level, launching the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce's campaign targetting scammers. "There seems to be a scam created to trap just about everyone - from dodgy emails and text messages, to phishing, to lottery scams, to fake investment ...

End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
An unregistered managed investment scheme has been ordered into liquidation and its directors banned from carrying on a similar business after they raised over $2.5 million from investors, predominantly from Melbourne's Greek community. The Supreme ...

Banks to fund consumer IT security: Symantec

Banks may have to pay for the IT systems of their clients if they want to avert the trend where consumers are refusing to transact online due to rampant IT identity theft and sophisticated internet scams. David Sykes, vice-president of Symantec's Pacific ...

Advice scam nets accountant 8 years inside

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
An accountant who fleeced nearly $1 million from investors through his financial advice business has been jailed for eight years. Piet Walters was found guilty of 14 charges of dishonesty relating to $972,000 given to his Drury Management business in ...

Scam targets ethnic community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... (ASIC) has warned investors to be wary of investment schemes targeted at specific communities after it acted to shut down a scam targeting the Australian Chinese community. ASIC investigations uncovered an online scheme specifically targeting the Australian ...

ASIC plays educator on the radio

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a six part radio series, Your Money, designed to help consumers distinguish genuine financial opportunities from scams. "Consumers are often dazzled by offers of high returns from ...

Banks under growing IT security threat: Deloitte

Financial institutions need to get serious about their IT security after the latest Deloitte Global Security Survey found that more than three-quarters of the world's leading 150 finance groups suffered a serious security breach in the last 12 months. ...

ASIC charges four over margin lending scam

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
Four people have been charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) regarding unlawful and misleading conduct which resulted in Sydney investors taking out and subsequently defaulting on Macquarie Bank Margin Lending loans. ...