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Australians scammed $1 billion over the past year

Yep, sadly it's true, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures.

The ABS found that 453,100 Australians lost an average of just over $2,000 as a result of personal fraud.

The top three scams in which people were exposed to were:

1. lotteries (2,437,400),
2. phishing and related scams (2,374,700); and
3. chain letters (2,054,000).

1,116,500 people were exposed to financial advice scams.

Please be careful, all of you. We need to band together to make sure than none of us get scammed ever again!!!

Does anyone have any tips about how to avoid becoming a victim?

Tags: money, scams

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Permalink Reply by patric p on September 25, 2008 at 12:06am

O.K.

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Permalink Reply by marc schwarz on January 23, 2010 at 6:05pm

agree 100 % so many dating sites on internet advertising for people to join and so many times you have fake women with letters of undying interest and love from all of the place. But the reality is it is africa and is probably some short fat sweaty little man in front of a computer waiting for the next sucker from here to reply and they generally ask for about 1200 us I have been attemted by several too many times to fall for it especially from russia I wonder where they get the pictures from they must scan a lot of girlie magazines for the pictures are generally f young beautiful women in various poses and bikinis