Australian financial regulator says it referred crypto scheme to police for alleged ‘possible fraud’ and believed matter was under ‘active consideration’
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Australian financial regulator says it referred crypto scheme to police for alleged ‘possible fraud’ and believed matter was under ‘active consideration’
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Scammers target Victorian consumers with a range of schemes that can be hard to spot.
Stevie, our reformed scammer, wants to show you how scams work, so you can protect yourself and warn others.
Stevie will walk you through six of the most common ‘advance fee frauds’. Select the links below to play Stevie’s videos:
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How You Can Help – Reporting Crime Information
If you have any information regarding a crime, or criminal activity, you can call Crime Stoppers Victoria on 1800 333 000 and confidentially report what you know.
We don’t need to know who you are, where you live or how you know.
When you call Crime Stoppers our professionally trained operators will ask you some questions. Don’t be concerned if they do ask questions. All they are trying to do is gather factual information they know will be important to pass on to the Police.
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If your computer appears to be taken hostage by local police who demand the payment of a fine to grant you access to your data, would you pay the fee, yank the power cord or recognise a scam and figure out how to neutralise it?
Malicious software that demands payment for the return of access to personal or financial data, known as “ransomware”, has been around in various forms for over a decade, but this year police-themed ransomware has emerged as the scam du jour for online con artists and there is evidence they are ramping up activity in Australia significantly.
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There's a very strong chance law enforcement will soon have access to a two-year backlog of our web data and telephone history due to law reforms. But so could hackers and just about everyone else.