Key Points
- New data from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia suggests 24 per cent of Australians have already been targeted with a tax-related scam, with 31 per cent struggling to identify different types of scams.
- The National Anti-Scam Centre’s latest Targeting Scams report revealed Australians lost $2.74 billion to scams in 2023 and reported over 601,000 different scams to key monitoring organisations.
- The advice is "stop before clicking on that link or make that transfer; think carefully if it's legitimate and protect yourself from scams".
