The National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC) is warning Australians that scammers have been impersonating phone numbers belonging to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in an attempt to ...

The National Anti-Scam Centre’s latest Targeting Scams Report found scam losses reported to key organisations fell by 25.9 per cent to $2 billion in 2024, showing the efforts by government, industry, ...

The National Anti-Scam Centre’s latest Targeting Scams Report found scam losses reported to key organisations fell by 25.9 per cent to $2 billion in 2024, showing the efforts by government, industry, ...

Scamwatch is a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and provides information to consumers and small businesses about how to recognise, avoid and report scams.

Warning signs it might be a scam A seller offers products at an unbelievably low price. They claim they have amazing benefits or features that sound too good to be true. An online seller doesn’t have ...

Real scam victims have shared their experiences to help warn others about scams. In these stories we ask you to find the signs that it was a scam, and consider how similar scams could be avoided.

The start of 2020 has not been an easy one for Australia, particularly those impacted by the bushfires. Scamwatch is warning all Australians to be on the lookout for fundraising scams and do their ...

How to spot the scam You see an article or video on social media about a celebrity or public figure who appears to promote an investment platform they say they've made a lot of money on. These trading ...

on Twitter and subscribe to Scamwatch radar alerts. Background So far in 2020 (1 January-July) Scamwatch has received: 67 reports of scams involving impersonation of the Department of Health, or state ...

Business email compromise scams caused the highest losses across all scam types in 2019 costing businesses $132 million, according to the ACCC’s Targeting Scams report. “These combined losses from the ...

Consumers are being warned to be wary of phone calls and texts that appear to be from their bank, following alarming reports of Australians losing their life savings to a highly sophisticated ...

How to spot the scam Fake invoice scams are hard to spot. This is because: the scammer will hack the business' email system or impersonate their email address a fake invoice looks real and may have ...