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In general, buying or selling scams means trying to scam the victim out of the money or items that the victim is looking to sell or purchase. Both the buyers and the sellers can be tricked into these types of scams.

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Overpayment Scams: The scammers may pay more money than the agreed price and then ask the seller to refund or forward it to a third party.

Health & Medical products: Selling healthcare products at low prices, or making false promises about their ‘cure-all’ products, medicine, and treatments.

Psychic & Clairvoyant: Trick the victims into giving away their money by offering them “help” with some sort of trouble that the scammers are saying the victims are in.

Mobile premium services: Trick the victim into paying extremely high call or text rates when replying to an unsolicited text message on your mobile or smartphone.

Online shopping Scams: Scammers pretending to be legitimate online sellers, either with a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site.

Classified Scams: Trick online shoppers to think they are dealing with a legitimate contact on classified websites.

False billing: False billing scams request to pay fake invoices for directory listings, advertising, domain name renewals or office supplies that were not ordered.

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 How they trick the victims? How to aware the warning signs?

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 How they trick the victims? How to aware the warning signs?

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The classified ad promotes products, services or rental properties advertised at very low prices, often lower than comparable items advertised on the same and other websites.

The seller claims to be unavailable and insists on payment prior to arranging for delivery of the goods.

The seller requests that you pay through international money transfers, cheques or direct bank transfers.

You receive a fake email receipt claiming to be from the website’s secure payment provider.

When dealing with rental property, the ‘landlord’ won’t allow you to view the property and will ask for bond, rent payments or deposits in advance.

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Fake website

Fake ad on a genuine retailer site

Credit card or cheque

SMS and phone call

False pharmacy

False bills, invoices

Fake charity

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Attempts to gain your personal information have 4 types: Hacking, Identity theft, Phishing and remote access scams. There are type of fraud that involves using someone else's identity to steal money or gain other benefits. These type of this internet theft use personal information to apply for credit, file taxes, or get medical services. These acts can damage personal credit status, and cost time and money to restore good name.

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< Identity Theft > Where it occurs? Who is victim? 

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< Identity Theft > Where it occurs? Who is victim? 

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1. Most of the scams are occurs mainly through text messages and personal phone, the rest are by email, internet, applications, social networking, in person, not applicable, mail and fax

2. This happens to all genders. The majority of the victims are over the age of 18, particularly those over the age of 65.

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* Don't share personal information (birthdate, ID card number, or bank account number) if someone asks for it.
* Choose passwords that would be difficult for others to guess. Don't use the same password for every account and don't share them with anyone.
* Do not open suspicious texts or emails or fake links – delete and ignore them.
* Never give an unsolicited caller remote access to your computer.
* Never give your personal, credit card or online account details over the phone unless you made the call and the phone number came from a trusted source.

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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. 2022. Home | Scamwatch. [online] Available at: <https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/> [Accessed 26 May 2022].
Westpac.com.au. 2022. Buying or Selling Scams. [online] Available at: <https://www.westpac.com.au/security/types-of-scams/buying-selling/> [Accessed 26 May 2022].