Scam Information

• Advance-Fee Scammers ( 7 Articles )
  

  A Nigerian letter type scam is where a supposed 'relative' of a senior government official in mainly African countries writes asking for assistance in getting funds out of their country.  They offer a percentage of the sizeable amount of money to you as a reward for them using your bank account to clear the funds.
  Estate type scams often originate out of the United Kingdom and claim to be an estate company trying to track down beneficiaries for a deceased estate.  They usually ask for money to be sent to cover the legal fees associated with lodging a claim and then disappear from contact with your money.
• Affinity Fraud ( 0 Articles )
  

  Affinity fraudsters prey on people who trust each other, particularly members of religious, social, or cultural groups. They use the trust that exists within these groups to help steal money.

• Banking Scammers ( 1 Article )
  

  Banking scams use technology to steal consumer information which can then be used to access money in people's bank accounts.

  Common variants include 'phishing' where scammers replicate a bank's internet banking website and obtain customer details and skimming where devices are fitted to ATM machines and EFTPos terminals to obtain card details.

• False Charity Scammers ( 0 Articles )
  

  These scams usually follow a major international disaster and pose as a charity raising funds for victims of the disaster.

• Lottery Scammers ( 0 Articles )
  

  These scams claim that the recipient has won a major international lottery.  To release the money the person must send through a payment to cover administration costs.  This money then disappears and no further contact can be made.

• Work From Home Scammers ( 0 Articles )
  

  These scams often appear in the classified adverts of a Newspaper.  They offer ways to make large amounts of money by simply stuffing envelopes from home.