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Young mum’s passport held over alleged $4.8m share scam – 17 July 2019
Jasmine Vella-Arpaci (Melbourne) has had her passport seized by the court and prevented from leaving Australia, over her alleged involvement in a blue-chip share scam, involving identity theft. The fraud has netted $2.44 million from unsuspecting victims and attempted to steal millions more from companies, including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Fortescue Mining and Woolworths.
Facebook cryptocurrency won’t go ahead without full government approval – 16 July 2019
Facebook will be defending its new cryptocurrency ‘Libra’ before Congress, due to concerns of criminal misuse. The company will need to navigate government regulation and oversight, existing government-backed currencies, criminal use and privacy, to get full government approval.
Anti-theft surveillance technology – 16 July 2019
A new generation of anti-theft surveillance equipment called ‘S20’ developed for retailers, is being rolled out now by Checkpoint Systems. S20, is a radio frequency electronic article surveillance antenna (EAS)
https://www.applianceretailer.com.au/2019/07/anti-theft-surveillance-technology/
Warning from AFP of scam targeting Chinese community, South Australia – 15 July 2019
The Australian Federal Police is warning the public of complex social engineering fraud and telephone scams currently targeting the Chinese community. They include the: virtual kidnap and extortion scam”; Tax impersonation scam”; Chinese Embassy official or the “Chinese embassy scam”; and the logistics provider or the “Package notification scam”.
https://www.miragenews.com/warning-from-afp-of-scam-targeting-chinese-community-south-australia/
