The woman, from Altona Meadows in Melbourne’s south-west, immediately checked her ticket after the call and realised she held one of the seven division one winners in Saturday’s TattsLotto draw.
The caller allegedly threatened the victim, a recently retired nurse, before then transferring the call to a man, who claimed to be a police officer.
The Australian Taxation Office warned there has been a spike in scammers impersonating the country’s tax authorities using robo-calls to swindle money from unsuspecting victims.
Australians lost more than $634million to various scams in 2019, Scamwatch revealed, and now the Australian Communications and Media Authority intends to help put up stop to it.
Peter Foster was arrested by police officers while he walked his dogs on a beach in Queensland, Australia. He is alleged to have run a sports betting scam costing investors tens of thousands.
Wednesday’s breach worked on several unsuspecting Twitter users and secured the hackers 12.86644654 BTC, or more than $116K.
Two men were arrested in London on Wednesday over an alleged scam to claim ‘bounce back loans’ from the Government’s scheme to help small businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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