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Federal Court freezes investment scam, winds up SMSF operator

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... SMSFs in the period from early 2017 to late 2019 but did not hold a licence. Naseeruddin encouraged investors to move their super and start an SMSF set up by an associate of his. ASIC alleges the funds were transferred to Secure Investments and subsequently ...

CSIRO contractor in crypto scam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
A CSIRO contractor has been sentenced over fraudulent behaviour after he used the organisation's servers and supercomputers to carry out cryptocurrency mining. He was caught out after the CSIRO noticed serious impairment of its computing infrastructure ...

ACCC flags dangers of ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... their personal details," Rickard said. And, while there have always been superannuation scams, Rickard said the kinds of super scams the ACCC is seeing has shifted. In the past, most super scams were around getting people to start a self-managed super ...

AFP charges early release scammers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... under the new COVID-19 measures. AFP Taskforce Iris has charged seven people in total with submitting false early release of super (ERS) claims. Police will allege the group submitted several fraudulent applications, claiming to be other superannuation ...

Cyber criminals jump on ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... analysing scams data regarding COVID-19 collected via Scamwatch to identify trends, monitor financial losses and inform our scam prevention strategies. He said the ACCC receives a large number of scam reports each year (167,801 in 2019), but the scam ...

ASIC terminates illegal investment scheme

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... 2017, the scheme encouraged clients of MCube Planners to withdraw their existing superannuation and establish self-managed super funds to invest, by way of a loan, in MyWealth Manager. The Federal Court found the scheme raised more than $7 million from ...

ATO crashes amid tax return, ERS rush

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... it was aware that a number of Australians trying to access its website to lodge returns or apply for the early release of super experiences issues with its systems. "This disruption was the result of a small component failure, which has reduced the capacity ...

ATO doubles down on fraud crackdown

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... text message or e-mail stating that your myGov details have been changed, or that you have applied for early release of super and you have not, don't ignore these messages: check your myGov, call the ATO or your super fund to make sure your identity ...

Raiz Super bleeds red

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
Raiz Invest's super offering lost a further $2 million during the month of May, with Australians taking advantage of the government's early release scheme to preemptively access their retirement savings. Over the last three months, funds under management ...

Complaints abound during COVID-19: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has received over 3180 COVID-19 related financial complaints since the pandemic was declared in March, with more than 600 directed at superannuation funds. Speaking to members at on online forum ...