Ulladulla Police have issued a reminder to be fraud aware following a string of scams affecting the area.
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Residents have reportedly have received numerous telephone scams and fraudulent emails over recent weeks.
Telephone scammers have claimed they are issuing refunds on behalf of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO); or they have told people their computers have been infected with a virus and requested credit card payment to ‘clean’ the computer.
Emails falsely attributed to the ATO include links to viruses or request personal details to process refunds.
Police have reminded people to not provide their personal or credit card details in response to an unexpected request.
If you think the caller is telling the truth, hang up and call a trusted number for the company to verify the claim.
Credit card fraud: 8 ways your details can be hijacked
- Hacked bricks-and-mortar merchants i.e. restaurants
- Processor breach
- Hacked point-of-sale service company/vendor
- Hacked e-commerce merchant
- ATM or other skimmer
- Crook employee
- Lost or stolen card
- Record theft
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