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  2. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    Australia. According to the Australian government, the crime has also been in the rise in that country. Monetary loss in Australia rose from $20.5 million to $28.6 million from 2017 to 2019. SCAMwatch, a website run by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), provides information about how to recognise, avoid and report scams.

  3. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the chief competition regulator of the Government of Australia, located within the Department of the Treasury. It was established in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission and the Prices Surveillance Authority to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974 ...

  4. Mass marketing fraud - Wikipedia

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    Mass-marketing fraud (or mass market fraud) is a scheme that uses mass-communication media – including telephones, the Internet, mass mailings, television, radio, and personal contact – to contact, solicit, and obtain money, funds, or other items of value from multiple victims in one or more jurisdictions.

  5. A Devastating Click: How an Email Scam Can Cost You ... - AOL

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    He notified the police, an Australian organization called Scamwatch, and most importantly, his bank. “I was devastated,” Calalang said. “I went to the Commonwealth Bank for help in September ...

  6. Australian Government - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive government consists of the prime minister and other ministers that currently have the support of a majority of members of the House of Representatives ...

  7. February 2010 Australian cyberattacks - Wikipedia

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    Anonymous. 4chan. Government of Australia. The February 2010 Australian cyberattacks were a series of denial-of-service attacks conducted by the Anonymous online community against the Australian government in response to proposed web censorship regulations. [1] Operation Titstorm was the name given to the cyber attacks by the perpetrators.

  8. Mass surveillance in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Mass surveillance in Australia takes place in several network media, including telephone, internet, and other communications networks, financial systems, [1] vehicle and transit networks, international travel, utilities, and government schemes and services including those asking citizens to report on themselves [2] [3] or other citizens.

  9. Politics of Australia - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The politics of Australia operates under the written Australian Constitution, which sets out Australia as a constitutional monarchy, governed via a parliamentary democracy in the Westminster tradition. Australia is also a federation, where power is divided between the federal government and the states and territories.