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Aussies lose $328m to investment scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... scams in 2020. This is according to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's (ACCC) latest report Targeting Scams, which unveiled a recording-breaking amount of $851 million stolen, rising 23% compared to the prior year. More than 1500 ...

Crypto investment opportunities outright scams: ASIC

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... direct someone to send them money or invest in cryptocurrencies or forex trading. It comes as the ACCC releases its Targeting Scams 2019 report, which found that Australians lost $126 million to investment schemes in 2019.

Investment scams pry $126m from Aussie hands

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... 'celebrity' endorsements to rort investors. According to the latest figures coming out of the ACCC's Targeting Scams report, Australians were defrauded of $634 million last year, with business email compromise scams accounting for the highest ...

ACCC sounds online fraud alarm

REGULATORY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... Competition and Consumer Commission through scams totalled almost $70 million, Kell said last week when launching Targeting scams - Report of the ACCC on scam activity 2009. "Scams continue to make up a large proportion of total complaints that the ACCC ...
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