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The ticket resale industry provides a valuable service, say its advocates. So how is it that so many people feel utterly swindled? And what can you do about it?
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He manipulated Laolao and stole her life savings. Why does she remember him so fondly?
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The Australian Tax Office struggles to get people to repay money from an outback tax scam, with money already spent on $80,000 LandCruisers and massive holidays.
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Mark Scott is alleged to have illegally routed approximately $400m (£310m) out of the US.
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A former Perth Wildcat player claims he's the latest to fall victim to a serial conwoman he hired as his au pair who he says went on to steal his wife's identity.
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A new tax return scam is targeting thousands of Australians with a text message and a hyperlink to a fake version of the myGov website, where they are asked to share personal details.
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NAB investigates after one of its executives, former NSW premier Mike Baird, and Waleed Aly appear in fake online articles urging people to exploit a wealth loophole and buy cryptocurrencies as part of a sophisticated scam.
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Robyn Hausler continued paying her mortgage and rates for six years, not realising the house she'd lived in for 20 years wasn't hers anymore. Now a court has ruled she can have her property back.
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As we head into ‘Stay Smart Online’ Week, “extraordinary” losses from scams show it’s easy to be duped, and victims like Susan Cusumano are determined to ensure it doesn’t happen to others.
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Phone or online fraud can leave you scarred. Here's some tips to help you fight back
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Adelaide police say two men turned up to a victim's house with an eftpos machine demanding money after earlier calling him pretending to be from the tax office. The man has told the ABC that he knew they weren't legit.
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Alec Baldwin and family went from royally screwed to the royal treatment this weekend when a kind-hearted Staten Island ferry captain brought them up to an off-limits roof deck.
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The BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost £500 after publishing his bank details in a British newspaper in a naive attempt to prove that the UK's largest ever data breach was a storm in a tea cup.
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Swindlers prey on people over 70, who lose millions each year to their shifting tactics.
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A WA woman is caught up in an online investment scam that used a bogus endorsement by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and created fake ABC News articles to publicise the scam on Facebook and LinkedIn.
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The collapse of property developer Ralan has left thousands of investors facing financial ruin, but there's more to the story than just a volatile property market.
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Chinese students are being forced to pretend they've been kidnapped, taking photos of themselves bound and gagged, in an alarming scam sweeping the country.
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Kiwis are paying ten times the price of entering the US thanks to this confusing scam.
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One hot day in February, two blokes appeared at Jean’s front door. The tall one with a captivating accent told her there was a big problem with her roof tiles.
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The golden rule of avoiding online scammers? If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Experts in the field, Professor David Lacey, Chair of Cyber Security at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and Professor Monica Whitty, cyberpsychologist at the University of Melbourne, reveal insights into how scammers trick us.
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At Telstra, we detect and block millions of spam and scam emails to our customers every day, and issue takedown notices to hundreds of fake websites.
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Consumers and business owners warned to stay vigilant amid a "significant uplift" in people impersonating broadband providers.
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Imagine answering a knock on your door, only to find the police on your doorstep looking for your teenage son - there as a consequence of a Europol investigation.