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There has been a significant increase in Australians being targeted with COVID-19 related scams and phishing emails.
These phishing emails are sophisticated and are targeting people’s need for information during this crisis and imitating trusted and well-known organisations or government agencies. Clicking on these malicious links or visiting fake websites may install computer viruses, malware or ransomware onto your device. This gives the scammers an opportunity to steal your personal and financial information.
Please, if in doubt, do not click a link.
To see the current scams going around and report a scam please visit ScamWatch.
Internet banking consumers have always been targeted by a range of email scams involving various hoax emails. The hoax emails have been sent to large numbers of email addresses in anticipation of at least some reaching users of online banking facilities. Because of the large number of emails involved and the random nature of the hoax, these frauds are often called 'phishing'. The hoax emails seek to trick online banking consumers into disclosing confidential financial information such as their Internet banking login and password details, thereby providing the perpetrators of the fraud with illegal access to their accounts.
The emails can look very professional and give the appearance of coming from a legitimate financial institution. Techniques that have been used so far include:
Having used these or similar techniques to capture login and password details, fraud perpetrators are then able to illegally access accounts and withdraw funds.
Members should also be alerted to a number of fraudulent job scams advertised on the Internet which entice users to act as money transfer agents for a third party. Consumers are duped into using their own accounts to transfer money for third parties as part of an ostensibly legitimate business transaction for a commission based on a percentage of the transfer. In fact, they become part of a money laundering operation for transferring stolen money. Again, these false job websites appear very professional and can be very convincing.
Members should exercise extreme caution with any online job offer where you are asked for your personal and banking details.
Identity theft occurs where a criminal obtains the personal details of an individual to masquerade as that individual and, typically; transfer funds, obtain cash, secure loans and other financial benefits. The individual is then left to deal with the debts so incurred along with the associated legal implications.
Identity theft can occur when a fraudster gets access to your personal information such as your date of birth, your address, your driver’s licence number and information from utilities, phone and bank account records.
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Stay alert for job ads and social media posts that promise easy money. Don't be a money mule.