According to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission data, Australians reported more than 57,000 scams during the first two months of 2023, costing them a whopping $97m. Phone call, SMS and ...

As cyber-criminals and scammers bombard Aussies during Covid-19 lockdown, spam callers have turned to an infuriating new tactic to harass people on their mobile phones. In recent months, hundreds of ...

Do you try to screen your calls for scammers? Phone scam criminals have a trick to get around that. It is called phone spoofing. Phone spoofing is when someone disguises the number they are calling or ...

Digital security company NordVPN has found that three quarters of Brits received a scam call last year, and three in 10 feel ...

More than half of the scams reported to ScamWatch are via phone. So far this year over 83,000 Australians have reported losing more than $52 million to scam phone calls. In particular, there are ...

TrustGH (trustgh.com), Ghana’s first public database for scam phone numbers, has recorded over 3,000 reports of suspicious numbers since its launch, the company announced today. The reported numbers ...

In 2017 Queenslanders were warned of a sophisticated Central African phone scam, with Queensland Police Senior Sergeant Steve Smith saying people had started receiving calls from a number based in ...

Missed calls from unknown numbers used to be easy to ignore, but now they’re harder, especially since scammers spoof real local numbers and clone familiar voices with AI. Malwarebytes has launched a ...

Learn how housing repair scam calls work, how to spot fake repair services and compensation scams, and how to protect ...

Scams have reached unprecedented levels, with a Brisbane family saying how their relatives were targeted. Here’s how to spot a scam and stop them. According to Australian Competition and Consumer ...