The best thing to do is hang up and forget about them. The phone scam is on a global scale and now joint action between three international regulators has resulted in US court orders to close down and ...

Emails, phone calls, text messages and elaborate inheritance schemes are among the methods used, and police warn sometimes scammers may even impersonate someone you know. In one week, four members of ...

Westpac has analysed transaction data points to discover the days and times when scammers are most likely to strike. Aussies have been warned to be alert in the afternoon on Tuesdays, as that's when ...

Hardware giant Bunnings has seen a spike in social media scams using its logos and branding to trick people into visiting scam websites. Bunnings is warning people that it won't ask customers to hand ...

A deepfake scammer was exposed during a video call last week after failing the three-finger test, a straightforward challenge that has rapidly become a go-to method for spotting AI-generated fakes.