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This PayPal and Facebook scam might cost you thousands – 28 April 2020
A new PayPal/Facebook scam allows hackers to steal roughly $1.6m per month from regular Facebook users.
Victims are duped into sending funds voluntarily to what they believe is a friend’s bank account after receiving the same amount of funds in their PayPal account. The PayPal transaction is then reversed.
https://www.techradar.com/au/news/this-paypal-and-facebook-scam-might-cost-you-thousands
Collapsed Canberra builder Banyan Constructions leaves nothing for small businesses owed millions, liquidator says – 28 April 2020
Banyan Constructions collapsed in January, owing more than $22 million. Ernst and young investigations identified several potential corporate breaches, such as insolvent trading and voidable transactions. Findings will be reported to ASIC.
Jonathan Sri: ‘Why I won’t be installing the COVID-19 surveillance app’ – 27 April 2020
Paper by Greens councillor in Brisbane raises some valuable questions around the covid-19 tracing app. Will those that haven’t installed it be discriminated against? Will privacy policies and government regulations be modified down the track? Will contact-tracking technology becoming a routine part of our lives, indefinitely and is personal privacy being comprised in the name of our civic duty?
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/jonathan-sri-why-i-wont-be-installing-covid-19-surveillance-app
Early super release scams discovered – 24 April 2020
Australians are being targeted by scams relating to the early release of superannuation and have been sent communications that look to appear from the Government.
https://www.moneymanagement.com.au/news/superannuation/early-super-release-scams-under-guise-govt
