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Why scammers target the holiday period to launch disturbing Google ad attacks
Attention-grabbing images of bruised and battered celebrities, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, are being used to funnel millions of people to bogus investment sites.
- by Aisha Dow
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HSBC knew customers were being scammed but didn’t help even as fraud surged: ASIC
Australia’s corporate regulator alleges the banking giant failed its customers by taking months to investigate scam reports and freezing customers’ accounts and leaving them without access to their own money.
- by Aisha Dow
Australian women lose class action over controversial medical device
Justice Andrew Keogh said chronic pelvic pain and abnormal uterine bleeding commonly affected women of reproductive age.
- by Aisha Dow
Meta bows to pressure to crack down on blatant scam ads
The social media giant has faced mounting calls to improve ad verification after a probe by this masthead revealed it had been accepting money from obvious scammers.
- by Aisha Dow
As it happened: Major overhaul of defence and veterans’ affairs; Joe Biden pardons son Hunter
Read the national news blog for rolling coverage of today’s top stories.
- by Josefine Ganko and Aisha Dow
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Medical Misogyny
‘These mistakes cost lives’: The medical bias that affects half of Australia
Nikki Purtill was lucky to survive an undiagnosed cyst on her brain. Her experience is part of the under-researched phenomenon of medical misogyny.
- by Aisha Dow, Wendy Tuohy, Emily Kaine and Kate Aubusson
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‘Not good enough’: Meta probe flagged as fake Albanese makes Facebook comeback
Meta said it deleted scam ads featuring the PM and targeting Australians, but within days they were back. Now the government is taking a closer look.
- by Aisha Dow
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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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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
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