Fraudsters have launched an online scam designed to steal bank account information from unwitting Internet users, after promising them US$200 in a fake email.
Visa Australia said today it was moving to chip and PIN technology for all of its credit cards, with signature transactions to be banned by April 2013.
The Victorian and Australian Federal Police forces last week raided a suspected internet fraudster based in Melbourne, the ABC's Four Corners revealed last night.
A Perth man has reportedly been jailed for six years for his role in a Nigerian-style scam campaign that netted $132,400 from four Australian victims.
A study by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that in 2007 half a million people fell victim to some form of fraud 383,300 were victims of credit and bank card fraud.
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We need to get the facts straight about identity theft and the Internet and stop scaring consumers away from the antidote to a US$47 billion national problem in the U.S.
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