Aussies hit by more than $98m in scams
The Australian Federal Police has laid bare the massive cost of scams in 2021 and a hit list of the ways cyber criminals target their victims.
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Email scams: How to get your money back
Aussie mum and dad businesses are targeted by criminal gangs who see them as an “easy payday” that costs on average $64,000 per scam. But you can fight back – see how.
Who really cut off ‘Chopper’ Read’s ears in prison
A book on ‘Australia’s most infamous jail’ has revealed the true identity of the man who cut off Mark ‘Chopper’ Read’s ears.
Aussie inmates hooked on ‘crimfit’ and jail TV cooking
One of Australia’s convicted terrorism offenders has gone viral in the prison population with his fitness series and TV cooking show in jail where he makes custard slice. See the video.
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New tax rort turns $60 steak into $10 bowl of chips
ATO officials and Federal Police officers have swooped on 35 businesses in search of software that falsifies sales data to avoid tax. See how it works.
Bikies, sex and slave traders: AFP’s dirty dozen acts of crime
From cyber hacks to slave trading, child abuse to drug peddling bikie gangsters, these are the top 12 crimes the Australian Federal Police have busted wide open.
SA’s unstoppable fraudster: Fake names, sneaky schemes, endless lies
Meet John Goros, aka John Phillips, John Gorcilov, John Sharpe … this prolific Adelaide conman’s astonishing range of devious crimes adds up to $9.8m over two decades.
Crime gangs using nude photos to extort Aussie kids
Australian children as young as 10 are being tricked into sharing nude photos of themselves by global syndicates – with some youth being pushed to suicide. Warning: Graphic.
Aussie on death row after drugs found in buttocks apologises
A 52-year-old Australian man caught at Bali international airport with heroin has broken his silence to profess his sorrow.
Slain in hail of bullets: Inside the downfall of bikie boss Shane Bowden
Shane Bowden was a powerful bikie until he was executed in a hail of 21 bullets – allegedly at the hands of his gang mates. Now an exclusive new doco lifts the lid on the crime. WATCH
WATCH EPISODE 2 NOW: The execution of Shane Bowden
Mayhem in the Mongols: A special two-part video documentary series that lifts the lid on the turmoil racking one of Australia’s most powerful bikie gangs, the Mongols. WATCH NOW
Albanese calls on Russia to hand over MH17 men
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called on Russia to act after three men were found guilty of deliberately downing MH17.
‘Big lie’: Bishop lashes Putin and calls for MH17 compo
She famously shirt fronted Vladimir Putin after the shooting down of MH17. Now Julie Bishop takes it again to the Russian President.
Aussie conman’s son takes fall in $6.4m betting fraud
The son of a notorious Queensland conman has taken the fall for a gambling scheme that duped many by promising big wins on races including the Melbourne Cup.
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