financial scams

Scammers Steal $12K In 10 Minutes From Aussie Student Via A Simple And Easily Overlooked Scam

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Scammers Steal K In 10 Minutes From Aussie Student Via A Simple And Easily Overlooked Scam

An alarmingly simple scam ensnared a university student, stealing the $12,000 he saved for a student exchange trip to America in just ten minutes. Matthew Sweeney, a 22-year-old criminology and criminal justice student at Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology, was working a regular shift at a supplement store in Braeside on Wednesday evening when the … Read more

A Hope for Scam Victims in Australia

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A Hope for Scam Victims in Australia

* This is a contributed article and this content does not necessarily represent the views of IBTimes. In an era dominated by digital transactions and interconnected financial networks, Australians are increasingly falling prey to scams, losing substantial sums of money to cunning fraudsters. Australian citizens collectively lost $3.1 Billion in 2022, up $1.1 Billion from … Read more