The .au Blog

Scam activity costs Australians hundreds of millions of dollars each year, and has significant personal and emotional repercussions for victims. That is why this year, auDA has again partnered with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Scamwatch for Scams Awareness Week.

As the holiday season fast approaches, online shopping is booming. To help you avoid losing money to scams, we’ve compiled a list of 12 ways to shop online securely this Christmas.

The theme of Scams Awareness Week 2021 was “Stop scams, speak up”. To do our bit to speak up on scams, we invited Delia Rickard, Deputy Chair of the ACCC, and David Lacey, Founder and Managing Director of IDCARE, to join a webinar hosted by auDA CEO Rosmary Sinclair AM to discuss scams and identity theft - the digital pandemic.

Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has begun but commentators are predicting an increase in COVID-19 related scams. In this blog we share tips to help people avoid falling victim to scams.

Here are a few things you can look out for to avoid falling victim to scammers this holiday season.