Join the fight: encourage scam reporting
Scam reports are critical in helping us spot trends, disrupt scams and alert the community. Help us fight back against scammers by encouraging Australians to report scams.
The National Anti-Scam Centre has renewed its warning about scammers lurking on social media platforms, as it continues a major clampdown on bogus job ads. More people have lost money to social media scams than any other contact method so far in 2024, according to Scamwatch reports.
The National Anti-Scam Centre is urging online shoppers to remain vigilant as it ramps up its efforts to disrupt scammers targeting Australians ahead of this weekend’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales.
The National Anti-Scam Centre has detected a new bulk extortion email campaign targeting Australians and is warning the public to be alert to this issue.
We’re on a mission to make Australia a harder target for scammers
The National Anti-Scam Centre, run by the ACCC, brings together experts from government, law enforcement and the private sector to disrupt scams before they reach consumers. We analyse and act on trends from shared data and raise consumer awareness about how to spot and avoid scams.