How your 'trusty' phone can deceive you...

11/29/22 • 24 min

When journalist Jessica Ridley received a call from a man claiming to work for her bank’s fraud detection team, she was convinced help was at hand. The phone calls and SMS messages came from legitimate numbers, verified as belonging to her bank.

But “smart” phones are easily fooled, our trust freely exploited, looks can be deceiving, and in the digital age, the art of deception is alive and well...

Anatomy of a Scam is hosted by Deborah Knight and features:

Jessica Ridley
David Lacey - Managing Director, IDCARE
Jeremey Fenton - Executive Manager - Consumer, Consent and Numbers Branch, Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
Assistant Commissioner Chris Goldsmid - AFP Cyber Operations Commander

Anatomy of a Scam is made in collaboration with CommBank. Stay CommBank Safe with services that help protect you from scams and fraud 24/7. Remember 3 simple steps: Stop. Check. Reject.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

But “smart” phones are easily fooled, our trust freely exploited, looks can be deceiving, and in the digital age, the art of deception is alive and well...

Anatomy of a Scam is hosted by Deborah Knight and features:

Jessica Ridley
David Lacey - Managing Director, IDCARE
Jeremey Fenton - Executive Manager - Consumer, Consent and Numbers Branch, Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
Assistant Commissioner Chris Goldsmid - AFP Cyber Operations Commander

Anatomy of a Scam is made in collaboration with CommBank. Stay CommBank Safe with services that help protect you from scams and fraud 24/7. Remember 3 simple steps: Stop. Check. Reject.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Previous Episode

Investment Scams: The “Big Fish” hooked for $1.8 million

In the wake of the GFC, architect Tony Camilleri hoped to rebuild his battered retirement portfolio and was open to investment opportunities.

And then his phone rang. A cold call. A confident pitch from a charming stock broker. The kind of call that embodies the adage ‘if it’s too good to be true, well...’

Anatomy of a Scam is hosted by Deborah Knight and features:

Tony Camilleri
IFW Global Executive Chairman, Ken Gamble
CommBank’s General Manager of Group Fraud, James Roberts
NSW Police Force Cybercrime Squad Commander, Detective Superintendent Matthew Craft

Anatomy of a Scam is made in collaboration with CommBank. Stay CommBank Safe with services that help protect you from scams and fraud 24/7. Remember 3 simple steps: Stop. Check. Reject.

Disclaimer: This podcast makes no suggestion that any investment organisation using the name Alexander Capital Management is not legitimate. This is a case where a scam operator appears to have falsely used a name that is similar to existing wealth management firms.

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Ransomware: To Pay Or Not To Pay?

If you are hit with a ransom attack, should you pay the ransom?

The short answer is “No”, but the longer answer is “it’s a little more complicated than that...”

Warwick Levy runs the independent fashion brand Lonely Kids Club, and when hackers hijacked the brand’s Instagram account, they also took control of its key e-commerce channel. Warwick was told he can have it back “if he did this one thing...” but the ransom demanded was a textbook case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t...

Anatomy of a Scam is hosted by Deborah Knight and features:

Warwick Levy - Lonely Kids Club
Assistant Commissioner Chris Goldsmid - AFP Cyber Operations Commander
Nick Klein - Executive Director - Digital Forensics & Incident Response - CyberCX
David Lacey - Managing Director, IDCARE

Anatomy of a Scam is made in collaboration with CommBank. Stay CommBank Safe with services that help protect you from scams and fraud 24/7. Remember 3 simple steps: Stop. Check. Reject.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.