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  1. Crime gangs use bots to lure young men in sextortion scams
    By Matthew Ward Agius

    Criminal gangs continue to have Australian men and boys in their sights as targets for sexual extortion, with more than $200,000 defrauded from victims in one state.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/cri

    #ScamsandFraud #CyberCrime #SexualOffences #YoungPeople #CrimePrevention #MatthewWardAgius

  2. Crime gangs use bots to lure young men in sextortion scams
    By Matthew Ward Agius

    Criminal gangs continue to have Australian men and boys in their sights as targets for sexual extortion, with more than $200,000 defrauded from victims in one state.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/cri

    #ScamsandFraud #CyberCrime #SexualOffences #YoungPeople #CrimePrevention #MatthewWardAgius

  3. Crime gangs use bots to lure young men in sextortion scams
    By Matthew Ward Agius

    Criminal gangs continue to have Australian men and boys in their sights as targets for sexual extortion, with more than $200,000 defrauded from victims in one state.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/cri

    #ScamsandFraud #CyberCrime #SexualOffences #YoungPeople #CrimePrevention #MatthewWardAgius

  4. Crime gangs use bots to lure young men in sextortion scams
    By Matthew Ward Agius

    Criminal gangs continue to have Australian men and boys in their sights as targets for sexual extortion, with more than $200,000 defrauded from victims in one state.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/cri

    #ScamsandFraud #CyberCrime #SexualOffences #YoungPeople #CrimePrevention #MatthewWardAgius

  5. Crime gangs use bots to lure young men in sextortion scams
    By Matthew Ward Agius

    Criminal gangs continue to have Australian men and boys in their sights as targets for sexual extortion, with more than $200,000 defrauded from victims in one state.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/cri

    #ScamsandFraud #CyberCrime #SexualOffences #YoungPeople #CrimePrevention #MatthewWardAgius

  6. Judge declares mistrial as sharp-eyed juror discovers evidence error
    By Conor Byrne

    Copies of evidence given to two jurors contained "irregular" redacted material deemed inadmissible in the trial of a Cape York Peninsula traditional owner accused of defrauding his community of mining royalties more than a decade ago.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/mis

    #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Courts #ScamsandFraud #NativeTitle #ConorByrne

  7. 'Liar loans' leave property market open to criminal exploitation
    By Daniel Ziffer

    Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property, largely in Sydney, has been bought by people who have submitted fake incomes statements and other fraudulent documents to support their borrowing.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-19/coo

    #Mortgages #ScamsandFraud #RealEstateIndustry #PropertyPrices #Banking #DanielZiffer

  8. Pork industry fraud case raises questions about money laundering risk
    By Megan Hughes and Kallee Buchanan

    A financial crimes expert says the revelation of large-scale fraud connected to the pork industry raises new questions about the risk of money laundering in food production.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-18/por

    #ScamsandFraud #PigFarming #FoodSafety #MeganHughes #KalleeBuchanan

  9. Artists warned to 'be prepared to make a stand' against AI
    By Conor Byrne and Charlie McKillop

    Country-folk musician Jeanette Wormald was shocked when she found a fake AI-generated website "tribute" to her, in place of a site she thought had lapsed. But then she found disputes over her copyright on her music.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-09/jea

    #AIEthics #CountryMusic #Copyright #ScamsandFraud #ConorByrne #CharlieMcKillop