Scams
‘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
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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
- Opinion
- Column 8
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
- 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
- Analysis
- 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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