Online scams increasing ‘dramatically’ across Australia

The amount of online scams targeting Australians has “increased pretty dramatically”, says Finder Head of Consumer Research Graham Cooke. “The overall number of scams reported – that’s gone up from 240,000 scams in 2022 to 300,000 scams last year,” he told Sky News host Steve Price. “This time of year it tends to be tax scams, these are scams pretending to be either somebody offering a tax refund or scams pretending to be directly from your MyGov account or the ATO.”