E 'ova i le $3 biliona na leiloa ma lusi e tagatanu'u Ausetalia i le tausaga na te'a nei mai le tau faasese ma faiga solitulafono faatogafiti a isi tagata.
Na faaalia i se ripoti a le "A triple-C" ua faigata ona iloa le tau faasese ona o le popoto o tagata o loo faia e mailei tagata ma ua tafea ai le aofa'i atoa o faaputuga tupe a nisi o tagata i le atunuu.
O le alii o Ian Henschke ua 68 tausaga le matua, ma e galue i le puipuiga o tupe a tagata matutua mai faiga tau faaasese.
Na ia ta'ua le taimi na toetoe lava pu'e ai o ia e le tau faasese i le 2 vaiso ua tuana'i....
[["Look, I felt sick as soon as I realised I handed my details over. I felt foolish."]]
O le suiga o le Kamupani internet e feso'ota'i ai, na tuuina ai ma faamaumauga o lana credit card e totogi ai le auaunaga.
E le'i umi ona faatumu le pepa ae maua mai le imeli o loo faapea mai e sese numera o loo avatu mo lana credit card.
Ua laki lona siakia o le igoa o le Kamupani o loo lisi mai i le imeli ma ia iloa ai se mata'itusi o loo misi ma vave ona toe faatonuina lana faletupe e taofi le totogi i le Kamupani.
E le o se Kamupani internet mao'i - o le taufaasese e maumu atu ai faamaumauga o lana credit card.
[["Then I realised: I have got to act immediately. So I was able to cut up that credit card within 20 minutes of those details going out. But I am still getting odd emails, so I think somehow or other they have got into my system - and we have got make sure we clean them out. Look - this is such a huge problem."]]
E tusa ai ma se faamatalaga mai le Scamwatch, o tagata i le 65 tausaga aga'i i luga le matutua ma sili ona mailei ma sili ona tele tupe na leiloa i le taufaasese.
E 'ova i le 500,000 tagata na lipotia le a'afia i faiga taufaasese ma lusi ai le 'ova i le 3 Biliona $$.
O le tele lava o le taufaasese e aofia ai tupe faafaigaluega poo investments, lea na gau ai le 1 ma le 'afa biliona $$.
O isi faiga e aofia ai le faaui i auala sese o le totogiina o tupe, faiga pa'aga poo tamaita'i ma ali'i e sa'ili ta'ito'alua i luga o le upega fesoota'i ae i'u ane e le o se tagata moni ae o ni fe'au o loo faasalalau mai se computer i Asia poo Europa i Sasa'e poo Aferika.
Na saunoa Catriona Lowe o le Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - le A-triple-C, ua maitauina fo'i le siitaga i le aofa'i o tupe e leiloa mai le taufaasese i le tausaga ua tuana'i....
[["We’ve seen an increase in average losses as well, up 50% to around $20,000. That is a lifechanging amount of money for people to lose and it’s of course not just financial losses that we’re talking about, there is emotional devastation that goes along with this too."]]
Ua ia valaau i f/toga ma matagaluega a le malo e faatulagaina puipuiga o le atunuu mai faiga taufaasese i luga o le upega fesoota'i.
Na saunoa le minisita o auaunaga tau tupe i le malo tele, Stephen Jones, o lona popolega ona o le tetele o aofa'i o tupe ua gau ma leiloa a tagata.
O loo taumafai le malo ma leoleo e taofia faiga tau faasese nei ae le'i taunuu mai i le atunuu....
[["The losses are big, the stakes are big and we have to lift our game. It’s why, as a federal government we’ve made it a priority, it’s why we’re lifting resources for the ACCC to establish a new anti-scam centre but it’s also why we ‘re looking at ways to cut off the avenues that scammers are using to attack customers. We're already putting in place SMS filtering technologies, to put obligations on phone companies to make sure that they're filtering some of these damaging SMS'. We want to be able to extend those sorts of capacities. And over the course of year, we'll be exploring what more can be done in this area."]]
O le auala sili ona taatele na faaaogaina e tagata ma f/toga taufaasese o le text, sosoo ai ma le telefoni, imeli ma le social media.
Na faaalia e le A-triple-C e iai auala e mafai ai e tagata lautele ona puipuia mai faiga taufaasese e gau ma leiloa ai tupe.
'Aua le oomia le kiliki se link e aumai i se text, vave taofia se talanoaga ma se tagata e vili mai ae e te le masani ai, ma logo lau bank poo le faletupe pe a e iite pe masalosalo e iai se mea ua sese......
Faatali, mafaufau, ma puipui........
[["We also ask consumers to remember three words: stop, think, protect. Stop before you give out the personal information, before you transfer money. Think could this be a scam. And protect - if something feels wrong after you've made a transaction, call a bank as soon as possible - and report the matter to Scam Watch*."]]
( by Tanya Dendrinos and Biwa Kwan for SBS News produced and presented by Ioane Tiperio Lafoa'i for SBS Samoan.
