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  2. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    Monetary loss in Australia rose from $20.5 million to $28.6 million from 2017 to 2019. SCAMwatch, [13] a website run by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), provides information about how to recognise, avoid and report scams. [14] [4] In 2005, the ACCC and other agencies formed the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce (ACFT ...

  3. FluBot - Wikipedia

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    16,000 reports of FluBot were reported to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's Scamwatch in Australia across eight weeks in 2021. [5] Although coverage of FluBot primarily centres on Australia [6] and New Zealand, [7] the scam has also targeted European countries such as Germany and Poland in 2022 campaigns. [5]

  4. Email spoofing - Wikipedia

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    Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. [1] The term applies to email purporting to be from an address which is not actually the sender's; mail sent in reply to that address may bounce or be delivered to an unrelated party whose identity has been faked.

  5. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.

  6. Scam - Wikipedia

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    Examples are in the United States (FBI IC3, Federal Trade Commission), Australia (ScamWatch ACCC), Singapore (ScamAlert [13]), United Kingdom (ActionFraud), Netherlands (FraudeHelpdesk [14]). In addition, several private, non-profit initiatives have been set up to combat online fraud like AA419 (2004), APWG (2004) and ScamAdviser (2012).

  7. LA wildfire victims forced to wait up to 18 months for toxic ...

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    Government red tape means it could take up to 18 months to clear the ash and debris from the charred remains of homes that were burned in the Los Angeles wildfires.. A federal program will pay ...