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How to protect against COVID-19 financial fraudsters – 17 March 2021
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.
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ASIC sues short-term lender ClearLoans – 16 March 2021
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.
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Financial controller admits to stealing $1.6mover more than a decade from business – 15 March 2021
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.
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Two police officers plead guilty to false documents of Hunter ATO fraud | Newcastle Herald – 15 March 2021
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.
