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 is urging Australians to check twice when shopping, gifting or travelling, as scammers know Australians will be caught up in the rush of the holiday season.
Australians reported nearly $260 million in losses to scams in the first nine months of 2025, with the National Anti-Scam Centre warning that online shopping scams are on the rise.
Australians reported more than 108,000 scams and financial losses of about $174 million to the National Anti-Scam Centre’s Scamwatch service in the first half of 2025, with fake websites, online advertisements, and contact through social media criminals’ preferred methods of reaching people.
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.