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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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- Opinion
- Bitcoin
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
How Elon Musk’s Starlink enables a multibillion-dollar online scam industry
Looking across the Moei River from Thailand, you can see them on the distant Myanmar rooftops – dozens of white rectangles, arranged in clusters. They’re a warning sign for what could be lurking underneath.
- Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
- Opinion
- Opinion
I lost over $20,000 in a scam. How do I recover?
It’s important to recognise that this can be a traumatic experience, so you need to give yourself enough time to recover.
- Paridhi Jain
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- Thailand
From the Thai borderlands, I saw the workers coming for their freedom
The nondescript town of Mae Sot on the Myanmar-Thai border has long been a hub of dubious trade. But now something remarkable is happening.
- Zach Hope
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- Asia
Borderlands: On the edge of humanity
Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty travel to the borderlands near Myanmar, where efforts are under way to rescue thousands of trafficking victims from scam factories.
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
The Playboy Swindler and the psyche of a scammer
At just 25-years-old, David Prince-Popovich has admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from people - many of whom were close to him. The conman's confessions are chilling.
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- Crime
A con artist made these chilling confessions. Then a criminologist dissected every word
The fraudster laid bare a life of false identities, fake trust funds and a $130,000 scam against his own lover. He says he wants to change, but an expert has doubts.
- Clare Sibthorpe
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- Banking products
No-ID-necessary accounts make Australians an easy target for fraudsters
Some accounts are stolen, some are bought and some are just plain fake, but all are used to reap millions of dollars from scams.
- Aisha Dow
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