Scams and Fraud

Anne and a man she had met online messaged every day for weeks. Their chat history shows how scammers emotionally and psychologically manipulated her — and stole $46,000.

A court upholds the death penalty sentence against real estate tycoon Truong My Lan as she scrambles to repay billions of dollars.

Under two new changes, financial advertisers on Facebook and Instagram will be required to reveal who is paying for the ads and who benefits from them.

The Indigenous community that lost almost $1 million to disgraced leader Geoff Clark says it can start to rebuild now he's been jailed after a decade-long investigation.

The 72-year-old south-west Victorian Indigenous leader has been jailed for six years and two months over 25 fraud-related charges. 

Property developer David McWilliams and his wife Laura Fullarton owned a sprawling property portfolio, drove luxury cars, and travelled the world, but their business empire was unravelling amid an ASIC investigation.

The Victorian music industry's peak body says unknown hackers have affected voting, causing false results in five of its six public categories.

With so many retailers spruiking big bargains this month, we're easy targets for fraudsters looking to cash in on the frenzied spending. 

The Chinese national, in Australia illegally, has been sentenced in a Queensland court for using a SIM box to send out millions of fake texts purporting to be from agencies including Centrelink and Australia Post, but claims he was unaware they were part of a phishing scam.

Prosecutors in Japan call for an Australian grandmother accused of importing 2 kilograms of methamphetamine to be jailed for 10 years as her trial draws to a close.

More than 250 people have been arrested in Manila after Filipino authorities raided the centre, with the Australian Federal Police also investigating.

Financial advisor Kris Ridgway's life began to unravel in early 2022 when it was discovered he was recommending unlisted shares to his clients. As Ridgway faces up to 15 years jail, his wife Kerrilyn says she's lost her past, and her future.

A Perth grandmother alleging a romance scammer tricked her into trafficking drugs to Japan tells her criminal trial she did not suspect she was being tricked because she was never asked for money.

A Perth grandmother who claims a love scammer tricked her into taking two kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan has told a court she had met romantic interests overseas before.

Harry James Creagh used his position to defraud hundreds of thousands of dollars from the post office in Ongerup.

A Perth grandmother and Indigenous community leader tells a Japanese court she was "deceived" after she was found with almost 2 kilograms of methamphetamine in her luggage at Narita airport, near Tokyo.

These farmers bought used tractors from a website that looked like the real deal. Instead, they fell into a trap laid by scammers using a Russian-linked website to pose as a legitimate Sydney-based business.

While "master manipulators" are trawling social media to trick many young people into making bad decisions, Australia's peak consumer agency has some advice for those who have fallen victim.

This year's Shonky Awards have been announced, with Facebook parent company Meta amongst the winners for its "inadequate action" against scams.

The Federal Court has frozen the assets and appointed receivers to a Gold Coast couple and their companies after an ASIC investigation revealed that nearly $40 million of investors' money was likely gambled at casinos.