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The 101 ways Google serves up Australians to known scammers
Using the world’s biggest search platform to find information on scams can deliver victims straight into the arms of criminals.
- by Aisha Dow and Charlotte Grieve
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‘Psychopaths are the best’: Confessions from inside the scam industry
From marketing and retention to catastrophe and recovery, the life cycle of the scam industry is breathtakingly cruel and strikingly consistent.
- by Aisha Dow
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Fake Albanese shows how Facebook is now a scamming honeypot
The social media giant is not only running obvious scam advertisements, it’s making money from them. Experts, victims and the government are demanding change.
- by Aisha Dow and The Visual Stories Team
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Scams
Scammers are targeting Australian bank customers. But there’s one key thing you can’t know
Partially censored data suggests fraudsters are finding certain banks much easier targets than others.
- by Aisha Dow
‘Dragged kicking and screaming’: Banking giant loses battle against scam victim
The decision by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, which came after an investigation by this masthead, has come as a welcome shock to victims and consumer advocates.
- by Aisha Dow
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Healthcare
Sleeping in hospital can be a nightmare. Experts say it’s time to wake up to some solutions
A recent Australian study found that noise levels in shared rooms in a large public hospital sometimes surpassed 100 decibels, as loud as a lawnmower.
- by Aisha Dow
Calls for laser hair removal to be subsidised for common condition
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a complex hormonal condition that affects about one in 10 Australian women. A common symptom is excess facial and body hair.
- by Aisha Dow
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Gender equality
This syndrome is shockingly misdiagnosed. Little wonder Bethany felt ‘medically gaslit’
Health experts want greater education about a debilitating syndrome which leaves patients, particularly women, facing a fight getting recognition and diagnosis.
- by Aisha Dow
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Comedy legend Rod Quantock was told he’d been hacked. Minutes later, $30,000 was gone
Rod Quantock and wife Mary Kenneally are calling for greater bank protections after being defrauded of their savings by a conman.
- by Tony Wright and Aisha Dow
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‘Not a single care’: Victims of HSBC fraud say bank could have stopped the scammers
HSBC is a small player in Australia’s banking sector, but data suggests its customers have been heavily targeted by fraudsters. Those who have lost life savings wish the bank had done more.
- by Aisha Dow
Copenhagen, not Docklands: Nick Reece wants to be lord mayor for real – here’s how
The former deputy mayor has confirmed he will run for the city’s top job at the coming elections, saying he’ll insist new growth suburbs are about putting “people first, not developer profit”.
- by Aisha Dow
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