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Luxury hotels and a Lamborghini: School captain ‘conned mates out of millions’
Chao Wang claimed he was running a successful betting company. Police allege it was all a “heinous” scam to steal more than $2 million from investors.
- Perry Duffin
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Woman arrested over extortion allegations related to Thai monks
Authorities suspect she used compromising images to get from senior monks with whom she had formed sexual relationships.
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‘FIFO criminals’: Police hunt 50 alleged scammers over $3 million spiritual blessing fraud
Elderly Chinese women were approached and told their loved ones would be “cursed” if they did not hand over money and valuables to be “blessed”, police say.
- Josefine Ganko
‘Convenience is at odds with security’: Why it’s going to be slower – and safer – to access your money
Payments experts say banks have been ‘slow out of the blocks on digital security’. The banks say they’re world leaders.
- Madeleine Heffernan
The hunt for Britain’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ who owes $134 million
He was described as a “Svengali-like” investing genius who could make clients a lot of money quickly. It sounded too good to be true - that’s because it was.
- Lucy Burton
CommBank unleashes ‘bot army’ with Aussie accents to trap scammers
Thousands of bots will receive calls from fraudsters, with computer-generated voices mimicking Australian accents and speech patterns wasting scammers’ time.
- Elias Visontay
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Rolling the dice on a Nigerian prince
Do not pass Go, do not collect a Kmart gift card.
Caught in a $60b scam, these workers tried to flee but the soldiers were waiting
It starts with a fake job ad and a free plane ticket to Bangkok. But when you cross into Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, you realise what you’ve walked into.
- Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
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‘Losses will continue to mount’: Bank staff’s security warnings before massive scam cost customers millions
HSBC customers lost more than $40 million to impersonation scams. The corporate regulator is suing the bank for failing to protect them.
- Aisha Dow
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Depositors beware: Crypto ATMs are the newest way to scam you
Cryptocurrency ATMs are popping up like mushrooms, with more than 1800 operating across the country now – and organised crime has caught on to it.
- Elizabeth Knight
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