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Australia: Quakers Hill Police seize high quality counterfeit DVDs

moe — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:34:08 +0000

As reported by Whatech.com on 12 April, Detectives from Quakers Hill Police, with the support of investigators from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), conducted a search warrant operation on a storage unit in Blacktown, seizing an estimated 80,000 High Quality Counterfeit (HQC) ‘Region 4’ movie DVDs and TV box sets as well as artwork and promotional inserts. This latest seizure is subsequent to the NSW Police action on 4th April when 1.2 million High Quality Counterfeit (HQC) DVDs, computers, and a shrink wrapping machine were seized from an associated factory unit. Read Article

Australia: Love scam victims in Gascoyne lose millions of dollars online

moe — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:53:44 +0000

According to Abc.net.au WA police major fraud squad operation began late last year and has since discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars has been sent from the Gascoyne. More than $1 million has been sent offshore from Geraldton alone in recent months. Read Article

Australia: Millions of counterfeit DVDs seized by New South Wales Police

moe — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:42:20 +0000

As reported by Au.news.yahoo.com police have seized $20 million worth of DVDs following police raids in Sydney’s north west.
Joint investigations by the Australian Taxation office and the New South Wales Police Force has led to a crackdown on a large counterfeit DVD network. Read Article

Australia: Braybrook man arrested in counterfeit money making operation

moe — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:36:14 +0000

Theage.com.au reported that, police have uncovered a cache of counterfeit cash and drugs during a night raid of a house in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Altona North Divisional Response Unit investigators swooped on the property in Beachley Street, Braybrook, about 9.30pm on Thursday. Read Article

Australia: Teens fall victim to online credit scam managed by black-market drug stores

moe — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:42:57 +0000

According to Perthnow.com.au, thousands of young Aussie thrill-seekers are increasingly buying cocaine and ecstasy from an international black-market website specializing in home-delivery drugs. Read Article

Melbourne, Australia: gambler hacked Crown’s Casino surveillance system wins $33.2 million

moe — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:08:29 +0000

Huffingtonpost.com reported that, It was like a scene out of “Ocean’s Eleven” — well, if George Clooney and Brad Pitt had hacked the security system and used the casino’s own surveillance system against it. Read Article

Sydney: residents, businesses, and banks victim of high quality counterfeit bills

moe — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:04:57 +0000

Dailytelegraph.com reported that in the past two months, organised crime gangs have caused a “significant spike” in the amount of fake currency – mainly $50 and $100 notes – passed in restaurants, bars and fast food outlets, particularly in Sydney’s west. Read Article

DNA mail scam, Australia

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:22:35 +0000

It’s a strange thing to find in your mailbox, a DNA testing kit. Aside from the potential for marital disruption (“What could you possibly want that for?”) the other problem is that it’s not actually a DNA testing kit at all but, instead, is a money extraction scheme. Clearly DNA stands for Do No Answer. Read Article

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Australia, vultures descend on flood victims with scams

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:08:34 +0000

POLICE have warned of an increasing number of scams to rob Queensland’s flood victims as the federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said the economic cost of the disaster will be the highest in Australia’s history. The scams include tricking victims into giving their bank details to people claiming they will help them obtain emergency funds. Read Article