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3.5 million Australians experienced fraud last year. This could be avoided through 6 simple steps

  • Written by Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
3.5 million Australians experienced fraud last year. This could be avoided through 6 simple stepsZigres/Shutterstock

About 14% of Australians experienced personal fraud last year. Of these, 2.1 million experienced credit card fraud, 675,300 were caught in a scam, 255,000 had their identities stolen and 433,000 were impersonated online.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics latest Personal Fraud Survey, between July 2023 and June...

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