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NSW Police have put out a warning over a new type of phone scam circulating in recent weeks after receiving numerous reports from the public.

Scams that involve a "money recovery element" are on the rise with over 158 reports made to Scam Watch in the last six months alone.

Less than four days after Levi's death, ruthless scammers set up a Facebook page calling for donations.

A Sydney man allegedly involved in moving millions of fraudulent dollars will face court, the sixth charged over the criminal syndicate.

A Perth man has been charged with allegedly setting up Wi-Fi networks to collect personal data from innocent users.

Yeah, nah thanks - scammers are trying to mimic Australian slang to trick phone users, Telstra reckons.

According to police, SIM boxes are behind the influx, which can hold which can hold up to 100 SIM cards and are capable of sending out a text message every two seconds.

A former bookkeeper and her son have joined a growing cohort of Australians who have fallen prey to sophisticated tax time scams.

A Melbourne woman has been charged after police unravelled several alleged Facebook Marketplace scams that drew in at least 20 victims from around the country.

Two people have been charged over what police allege was an "elaborate" Facebook Marketplace scam to steal a high-end designer handbag worth thousands of dollars.

Research participants were confident they could pick a scam, but 31 percent of those tested fell for one of these.

Police said these viruses are built to spread and takeover a victim's device, just like a plague.

A Western Australian mum says she is out of pocket $1000 after she paid Blossom Au Pair Service and allegedly received no service from the company.

The retailer has reached out to customers with an email confirming the breach, and advice on how to proceed.

Some people have lost more than $20,000 by falling victim to the fake messages, new research says.

Entire bank accounts are being drained without victims being any wiser until they open them days or even weeks later.

Scammers are selling $20,000 of "premium" fake cash for $1000 of real money in a business model that preys on desperate Australians.

To make the sale appear legitimate scammers provide a real residential address and assure customers they can pay the remaining amount upon pick up.

A spokesperson for London-based Arup told CNN on Friday that it notified Hong Kong police in January about the fraud incident.

A British multinational design and engineering company behind world-famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House has confirmed it was the target of a deepfake scam that led to one of its Hong Kong employees paying out $37 million to fraudsters.

Telstra, Optus, Coles and Woolworths customers are being sent fake text messages urging them to use points before the expire.

The operators are mostly targeting Australians aged between 25 and 50, putting them at risk of having their retirement savings eroded.

The boxes allegedly allowed the pair to send millions of Australians fake toll-related messages to steal money and identity information.

The charges come following an almost two-year investigation by Queensland Police into cold call investment fraud or "boiler room" schemes.

A once-aspiring country music singer accused of running a multi-million-dollar property investment scam has been arrested on new charges.

Alarm bells rang when she heard her friend's 78-year-old mother was dating an international traveller. Now she's identified the red flag everyone should be looking for.

Aware Super says it has seen a 208 per cent increase in attempted frauds over the last six months.

When Sydney resident Tash received a strange package of clothes in the mail she was left feeling uneasy.

The grieving family of a cyclist killed in an alleged hit and run are being targeted by online scammers.

A spokesman from Bendigo bank says the easiest way to protect yourself from these scams, is simply to hang up the phone.

The woman went into a Melbourne branch of National Australia Bank to transfer the money to a person overseas who she said was her boyfriend.

A woman has been scammed out of $10,000 by her Facebook friend who had been hacked with AI.

Marlena Karbowski knew something was wrong after a customer came into the Liverpool Branch asking to cancel her home insurance.

Nearly all victims of card fraud notified authorities upon becoming aware.

In videos accompanying the announcements, "news anchors" discussed her death and used background photos of a car wreck, a coffin leaving a funeral home and a flickering candle next to her portrait.

Detectives probing the death of a 96-year-old woman nearly two years ago have uncovered she was the victim of an elaborate 'murder and scam plot'.

Scammers are creating fake news articles and deepfake videos to convince people that celebrities and public figures are making large sums of money using online investment trading platforms.

The financial watchdog wiped out thousands of websites in just six months, and are in the process of taking down another 350 sites.

People are losing hundreds of dollars a year to fraudulent buyers.

Three men holed up in two Sydney apartments allegedly sent more than 80 million fraudulent text messages as part of an elaborate SMS phishing scam.

A major online retailer is in court facing a $10 million penalty after cars for sale had wrong information on its description.

The scam tries to convince students looking for flexible employment with no requirements that the job is "victimless" but authorities say otherwise.

Shane Arnold lost thousands when thought he was entitled to a refund after receiving a fake Netflix email. 

There are new warnings for Taylor Swift fans who have tickets to see the megastar at her seven upcoming concerts in Sydney and Melbourne, the first of which is tonight.

Ticketek is bracing for ticket chaos at the MCG and Accor Stadium as nasty plots hatched by scammers months in advance are fully realised.

Those involved were current and former staff, who have since been fired or investigated.

"It's not a question of 'if' but 'when' you'll be caught," Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has warned.

The government's Scamwatch received 484 reports of romance baiting scams in 2023 - more than one a day.

"It turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake," police said.

The Craigmore woman caught the moment the scammer dropped off the fake TV on CCTV about 11.30am yesterday morning.