Finance

A Melbourne man has been sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment after defrauding the Australian Taxation Office of nearly $35,000, and filing additional false claims worth an extra $460,000, including dozens of dodgy JobKeeper applications.

Meta’s advertising library shows that many of scam URLs have been featured in advertisements on the platform. There’s no information about how many users were shown these advertisements or how they were targeted.

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has urged Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg to crack down on the "hundreds" of imitation scams on Facebook which use Rinehart's image and likeness.

The corporate cop has taken down more than 2,500 investment scam and phishing websites in the past four months alone. 

A review into PwC by former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski found multiple shortcomings in the company arising from poor practices that went unreported for years.

A Mildura man who received $837,000 from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) using 'TikTok GST scam' has been sentenced to 7.5 years of jail time.

ACMA and Australia Post have warned consumers to be on the lookout for dodgy parcel delivery SMS and email messages this Father's Day.

Scammers are inundating targets with fake messages asking them to provide their myGov details, the Australian Taxation Office has revealed, while urging taxpayers to remail vigilant when completing their tax returns.

The GST scam that went viral on TikTok continues to get worse as the ATO admits that it had to payout double what it initially reported.

Investment cons are responsible for around half of the $1 billion in total scam losses suffered by Australians each year.

Former Coles Online executive Aaron Baslangic, who stole $1.9 million from the retailer, has pleaded guilty to deception.

A company director will review the culture of embattled accounting firm PwC as the federal government works out how to deal with the consequences of the tax leak scandal.