make australia safer
It’s time to stop cyber-enabled crime and deception stealing so much from hardworking Australians.
Empower. Educate. Disrupt scams
4 features of scams
Whether it’s romance fraud, investment crime or phishing, there are 4 common patterns to all scams.
Disrupting scams means breaking the pattern. Criminalising the enablers. Encouraging corporations to step up the fight.
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It all begins with becoming a lead or a target - it can start with a data breach or your information can be sold.
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Impersonating a trusted identity or tricking a victim is a key feature. Australia Post, celebrities and especially banks are impersonated.
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Transferring money or crypto - often through mule accounts or shelf compaies that are rented, bought, sold or set up with stolen ID is all-important.
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Money laundering is needed to rinse scammed money of its fraudulent origins. There are many methods and ways scamming gangs do this.
the problem
Transnational crime networks are scamming our region. They’ve built industrial-scale operations, with professional call centres, data thieves and money mules targeting Australians to steal their superannuation and property.
Modern scammers are highly skilled and increasingly sophisticated at laundering stolen money.
This threat is global, the response is not.
Awareness is growing, yet efforts remain fragmented — we wantAustralian organisations to step up with us to stop this scourge.
Collectively, we can solve it.
