Credit fraud hit more than 1.5 million Australians

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics says 1.6 million Australians experienced some sort of personal fraud last financial year. That marks an increase of nearly 7 per cent since 2010. It is costing a total of 3 billion dollars, with two- thirds of that relating to card fraud.



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