{"id":6014,"date":"2017-05-15T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T00:21:00","slug":"australians-taken-ride-tune-300m-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/australians-taken-ride-tune-300m-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians were taken for a ride to the tune of $300m in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The number of people reporting scam activity in Australia was at record levels in 2016 according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission\u2019s annual Targeting Scams report, with a 47 per cent increase in scam reports to the ACCC compared to 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Losses reported to Scamwatch, ACORN and other scam disruption programs totalled $299.8 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting notes from the data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even split between phone and online orientated scams.<\/li>\n<li>Of the online scams the majority are initiated via email.<\/li>\n<li>45% of those scammed were over 55.<\/li>\n<li>Scams revolving dating\/romance and investments accounted for\u00a0the majority of the $300m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ACCC&#8217;s full infographic embedded below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/27130846\/1188_Scams-report-infographic-FA03.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/media-release\/australians-lost-nearly-300-million-to-scams-in-2016\">Australians lost nearly $300 million to scams in 2016 | ACCC<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of people reporting scam activity in Australia was at record levels in 2016 according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}