Fighting Fire with Fire: Tech Tools for Stifling Scams
In the age of AI, scammers are now equipped with a new arsenal for exploitation - and we need similarly new defences to match. This raises a...
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Anatomy of a Scam
Australia faces an epidemic of scams, a daily barrage of dodgy texts, phone calls and emails from anonymous cyber criminals and con artists, domestic and abroad. Financial losses are doublin...
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16 episodesFalse Profits: Spotting the Red Flags of Investment Scams
The desire for riches beyond our dreams can obscure even the most obvious signs of an investment scam, blinding us to the red flags and warn...
The Phishing Scam Numbers Game: Bait, Believability, Bad Luck
If you encounter a scam, chances are it's a phishing scam - but what are the odds you'll fall for it? What variables factor into the outcome...
BUY/SELL/SCAM: The Scam Side of Social Media
Online marketplaces give you easy access to what you want - but beware, they can also deliver more than you bargained for, whether you're bu...
Deepfakes: The New Face of Fraud
In the age of AI, looks can be deceiving. Deepfake technology is increasingly being used to create sophisticated, hard-to-detect scams and f...
AI Voice Clones: The Sound of Deception
Listen closely - can you pick the real voice from the AI clone? It's not that easy... As voice cloning technology advances the art of digita...
RETURNING NOV 28: Anatomy of a Scam Season Two
In our fight against scams, we started to heed the warnings and spot the signs – the message was sinking in. But then we woke up one day in...
Fighting Back: Weapons in the War Against Scams
When faced with an arsenal of scams aimed directly at us, we are also faced with one vital question: How are we defending ourselves? It’s a...
‘Not so Happily Ever After’: Romance and the Psychology of a Scam
After finding the love of her life online, Sharon Armstrong was sure she was headed for her ‘happily ever after.’ Instead, she spent two yea...
Remote Access Scams: The "helpful" hijackers hiding in plain sight…
We’ve all had a problem solved on the end of a tech support line. So when Vicki receives a call claiming to be from one of the biggest compa...
Ransomware: To Pay Or Not To Pay?
If you are hit with a ransom attack, should you pay the ransom? The short answer is “No”, but the longer answer is “it’s a little more compl...
How your 'trusty' phone can deceive you...
When journalist Jessica Ridley received a call from a man claiming to work for her bank’s fraud detection team, she was convinced help was a...
Investment Scams: The “Big Fish” hooked for $1.8 million
In the wake of the GFC, architect Tony Camilleri hoped to rebuild his battered retirement portfolio and was open to investment opportunities...
Gone Phishing: the racehorse trainer, the Mercedes-Benz, and the missing $100,000
Most of the time we back ourselves to spot a real email from a fake one. But sometimes the signs of a scam are so well hidden, you don’t eve...
The individual building blocks of scams and fraud
In Australia, a cyber breach is reported roughly every eight minutes. Often these attacks involve the theft of data prized by scammers: our...
Trailer: Anatomy of a Scam
Australia faces an epidemic of scams, a daily barrage of dodgy texts, phone calls and emails from anonymous cyber criminals and con artists,...