by admin | Mar 17, 2021 | News & Analysis
The teenage mastermind behind a high-profile hack on Twitter where well-known celebrities and valuable companies were used to promote a bitcoin scam, pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to three years in a Florida prison....
by admin | Mar 17, 2021 | News & Analysis
The scammers tricked Phoebe, who has power of attorney for her grandmother, by posing as an employee of the aged care home over emails. The family lost $375,000 from the sale of their grandmother’s home. Consumer Protection WA believes scammers are using spyware...
by admin | Mar 17, 2021 | News & Analysis
The pandemic has inspired a spike in online fraud and unregulated financial advice, but checking your adviser’s credentials and securing your online data can help, experts say....
by admin | Mar 16, 2021 | News & Analysis
The corporate cop is suing a short-term loan provider that charged interest rates of up to 43 per cent, for hundreds of breaches of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act over a two-year period that included the onset of the coronavirus crisis....
by admin | Mar 15, 2021 | News & Analysis
The former financial controller of an electronics business in Sydney’s north has admitted to stealing more than $1.6 million over an 11-year period, using an elaborate scheme which involved manipulating its payroll system to give himself extra money....
by admin | Mar 15, 2021 | News & Analysis
While serving as police officers in the Hunter, Kathryn Marie Goddard and Paul Hunter McDonald pleaded guilty to tricking the Australian Tax Office into deliberately handing false documents and receipts to the auditor and fraudulently charging thousands of dollars....
