Anatomy of a Scam
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Fighting Fire with Fire: Tech Tools for Stifling Scams
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of AI, scammers are now equipped with a new arsenal for exploitation - and we need similarly new defences to match. This raises a pressing ...
False Profits: Spotting the Red Flags of Investment Scams
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The desire for riches beyond our dreams can obscure even the most obvious signs of an investment scam, blinding us to the red flags and warnings. It g...
The Phishing Scam Numbers Game: Bait, Believability, Bad Luck
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you encounter a scam, chances are it's a phishing scam - but what are the odds you'll fall for it? What variables factor into the outcome? And how ...
BUY/SELL/SCAM: The Scam Side of Social Media
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Online marketplaces give you easy access to what you want - but beware, they can also deliver more than you bargained for, whether you're buying or se...
Deepfakes: The New Face of Fraud
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of AI, looks can be deceiving. Deepfake technology is increasingly being used to create sophisticated, hard-to-detect scams and frauds. So ...
AI Voice Clones: The Sound of Deception
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen closely - can you pick the real voice from the AI clone? It's not that easy... As voice cloning technology advances the art of digital mimicry,...
RETURNING NOV 28: Anatomy of a Scam Season Two
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our fight against scams, we started to heed the warnings and spot the signs – the message was sinking in. But then we woke up one day in the AI...
Fighting Back: Weapons in the War Against Scams
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When faced with an arsenal of scams aimed directly at us, we are also faced with one vital question: How are we defending ourselves? It’s a questi...
‘Not so Happily Ever After’: Romance and the Psychology of a Scam
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After finding the love of her life online, Sharon Armstrong was sure she was headed for her ‘happily ever after.’ Instead, she spent two years in ...
Remote Access Scams: The "helpful" hijackers hiding in plain sight…
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all had a problem solved on the end of a tech support line. So when Vicki receives a call claiming to be from one of the biggest companies in ...
Ransomware: To Pay Or Not To Pay?
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 compl...
How your 'trusty' phone can deceive you...
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Investment Scams: The “Big Fish” hooked for $1.8 million
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the GFC, architect Tony Camilleri hoped to rebuild his battered retirement portfolio and was open to investment opportunities. And then...
Gone Phishing: the racehorse trainer, the Mercedes-Benz, and the missing $100,000
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the time we back ourselves to spot a real email from a fake one. But sometimes the signs of a scam are so well hidden, you don’t even think ...
The individual building blocks of scams and fraud
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Australia, a cyber breach is reported roughly every eight minutes. Often these attacks involve the theft of data prized by scammers: our private, p...
Trailer: Anatomy of a Scam
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australia faces an epidemic of scams, a daily barrage of dodgy texts, phone calls and emails from anonymous cyber criminals and con artists, domestic ...