Counterfeit doses and unlicensed providers are harming patients, experts said.
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Counterfeit doses and unlicensed providers are harming patients, experts said.
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Scammers are able to get past automated checks on the social media giant to try to defraud users.
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The words emblazoned across the ads are dramatic, and they're usually accompanied by a photoshopped or AI-generated image of an Australian celebrity being arrested. It's an attempt to take your money.
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Once we can appreciate the criminality of fakes, it’s clearer why we should all be concerned. How did they get here? How were they sold unchecked for so long?
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Do you need a biocharger? What about a vaginal egg? Among all the wellness fakery on social media, here’s how to tell fact from fiction.
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The history of a huckster offers a lesson here, if we want to heed it.
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Instagram influencer Belle Gibson built her profile on a lie. But she's not the only one whose Instagram doesn't quite meet reality.
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It is likely there are more fraudulent institutions than genuine ones, says head of fraud detection
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The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.
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The ACCC says as many as three quarters of all social media users read online reviews before making a purchase, so when it also says it receives frequent complaints about fake reviews, it is worth taking note.
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Infamous cancer faker Belle Gibson has been ordered to appear in Federal Court after failing to pay a $410,000 fine for exploiting her sick followers.
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The colonic irrigation and coffee enemas promoted on Paltrow’s website Goop are not merely unnecessary, they are potentially dangerous, writes obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter
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The very nature of social media networks could be making us peculiarly vulnerable.
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A fake story about Denzel Washington praising Donald Trump is being shared on Facebook.
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Bogus degree-awarding institutions are on the increase, with one being no more than a shopfront and others having no physical presence at all
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After breaking up with his long-term partner, John Browne worried that returning to the dating scene would not be easy. But as the 36- year-old chef sat down for dinner with a young - New Zealand Herald
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According to former insiders, company records and an analysis of its websites, a secretive software company is selling fake academic degrees on a global scale.
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The temptation to buy a designer handbag or a luxury aftershave at a bargain price is high during the Christmas period.
But even if they do feel and smell uncannily like the real deal, experts say it is worth doing all the necessary checks to avoid counterfeit products.
Shoppers are being warned that a wave of counterfeit goods is flooding the market during the festive season.
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More than 100 people are arrested in the biggest ever crackdown on fake share deals - so-called "boiler room" fraud - led by City of London Police.
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The ADE 651 stood for "Advanced Detection Equipment". And it certainly looked the part. Sleek black casing. A swivelling antenna that was said to detect everything from bombs to 100 dollar bills. A card that indicated what the device had found.
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The BBC's Saira Syed visits a hi-fi firm in Singapore that had to deal with the problem of counterfeit copies of its product coming out of China.
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A fake ID site suspected of supplying proof-of-age cards to Australian under-18s has been shut down after a police raid.
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It seemed too good to be true, and it was. Thousands of users of photo sharing website Instagram have been taken in by a fake competition to win a free flight to Dubai.
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Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI - Italian Tommasso Debenedetti has killed them all in fake tweets aimed at exposing shoddy journalism that have earned him global
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Hundreds of scammers are posting fake flat listings online to catch out would-be renters.