Free: The Little Black Book of Scams @ ACCC (July 2023 Revised English Edition)

Twix on 06/07/2023 - 13:37
Last edited 06/07/2023 - 14:08 by 1 other user

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The Little Black Book of Scams has been updated for 2023.

The best way to protect yourself is through awareness and education.

The Little Black Book of Scams is recognised internationally as an important tool for consumers and small businesses to learn about scams including:

  • the most common scams to watch out for
  • the different ways scammers can contact you
  • the tools scammers use to trick you
  • the warning signs
  • how to protect yourself, and
  • where you can find help.

Also on ACCC web site

English PDF.

Translated copies of the revised Little Black Book of Scams will be available in the near future.

Stay safe OzBargainers.

Free Software/Websites eBook

Related Stores

ACCC Scamwatch
ACCC Scamwatch

Comments

  • Agent Q on 06/07/2023 - 13:42
    +58

    Free: Little book of business ideas

    • SuBw00FeR on 06/07/2023 - 13:44

      Underrated.

  • digitizer on 06/07/2023 - 13:42
    +2

    I always wonder if this inspired anyone to become a scammer

    • Neoika on 06/07/2023 - 13:47
      +2

      with outdated techs.

      • digitizer on 06/07/2023 - 14:16
        +1

        Nothing really new under the sun. Except for maybe getting a call from someone sounding exactly like your next of kin, with developments in ML..
        I don't see this one in the book btw and it's probably one of the scariest..

        For those unaware - you need just a few words from the person to train a model that very very similar to them

        • Protractor on 06/07/2023 - 14:33
          -1

          I'm amazed when I read on Reverse Australia site how many ppl, not only answer cold calls from unknown or unrecognised numbers on their landlines, but just how many call them back. If you ever get ppl calling who hang up after you say something, you may just have been voice sampled.

          Spoofed number + AI duplicated voice of that numbers owner + hacked govt databases (with their info), What could possibly go wrong?

  • I Smell Pennies on 06/07/2023 - 13:46
    +1

    The Little Black Book of Scams

    Sounds dark

    • cheapy on 06/07/2023 - 13:57
      +3

      Wait for the sequel - The Big Black Book of ACCC investigations that weren't acted on.

      • Cheap Gamer on 06/07/2023 - 14:24

        Sounds like a slog so I'm gonna wait for the next Underbelly. Hope it's Plutus!

  • localhost on 06/07/2023 - 13:48
    +11

    Rule number 1:
    gumtree/fb marketplace - CASH only

    • currentfad on 06/07/2023 - 13:52
      +2

      Lol the other day either a current affair or today tonight had a segment about marketplace scams, then advised their viewers to avoid cash transactions if possible… Yikes.

      • rumblytangara on 06/07/2023 - 14:03
        +2

        then advised their viewers to avoid cash transactions if possible…

        What on earth was the reasoning there? Surely they are not saying that plastic Aussie notes are easy to counterfeit?

        • JeremyDealFiend on 06/07/2023 - 14:10

          Probably you can get robbed?

        • digitizer on 06/07/2023 - 14:11

          And that it's hard to prove that cash actually changed hands, and that you can't trace it to a person

          • eggboi on 06/07/2023 - 14:16

            @digitizer: if you do the transaction at a bank ATM, there's a recording of the buyer's face, date and time etc, the whole environment surrounding the transaction, the amount etc. Only a moron would try to go ahead with a scam if you do it right outside a bank branch. Obviously I"m talking $500+ transactions here for convenience sake.

            • digitizer on 06/07/2023 - 14:21

              @eggboi: That's a good tip, although I am not sure anyone would make the effort to go to one to sell something the next person will happily buy from their house

              Only a moron

              So you mean only a scammer? (:

            • RichardMelbourne on 06/07/2023 - 14:23

              @eggboi: Pray they don't see your PIN being entered ;)

          • rumblytangara on 06/07/2023 - 14:27

            @digitizer: There's going to be an electronic comms trail leading up to the transaction… that surely can't be the reason.

            • digitizer on 06/07/2023 - 18:06

              @rumblytangara: Doesn’t help police much if its with a disposable gumtree account they cant link to a name. But who am I kidding, police doesn’t get involved even if you do have a name and address and all the comms in the world.. going by anecdotal evidence at least

    • InsertCrow on 06/07/2023 - 13:54
      +1

      I do love a good forum post though

  • Feelsbad on 06/07/2023 - 13:49
    +6

    Do not redeem!

    • mbck on 06/07/2023 - 13:57
      +2

      Why did you redeem it?

    • alxjpow on 06/07/2023 - 14:08

      Bakchodi!!!
      Haraamkhor Bewakoof!!
      Bakrichod!

  • Kaiserschmarrn on 06/07/2023 - 13:59
    +3

    They have it in different languages too! This is so helpful thanks OP. Now instead of just hoping my grandpa doesn’t click on any scam texts on his phone, i can let him read this.

    • Twix on 06/07/2023 - 14:07
      +1

      The translated 2023 editions haven't been updated yet. The other languages are the 2016 edition.

  • will05 on 06/07/2023 - 14:03
    -4

    looks like they eye on global scammers but they forget their own -
    tradies rip-off's, lies, bad behaviour 😤

  • Jack D Price on 06/07/2023 - 14:05
    +5

    my mum won't open the link because she thinks it's a scam….

    • nexus4 on 06/07/2023 - 14:12

      Sounds like she doesn’t need it anyway!

  • jv on 06/07/2023 - 14:09
    +1

    I got the autographed copy…

    • Twix on 06/07/2023 - 14:11
      +1

      Who signed it?

  • capslock janitor on 06/07/2023 - 14:15
    +1

    cheers twix

  • OzyBe on 06/07/2023 - 14:17
    +4

    I paid $10 for my The Little Black Book of Scams - was I scammed?

    • ihfree on 06/07/2023 - 14:27
      +3

      Nah, you're fine.

      Interested in buying the sequel?

      • altomic on 06/07/2023 - 16:40

        Harry Potter and the Really Good Deal ?

  • randomusername2017 on 06/07/2023 - 14:27

    Little black forum is a more interactive read ..they all appear here eventually.

  • Protractor on 06/07/2023 - 14:28
    -3

    The ACCC are scam enablers (petrol price cycling,anyone?) when it comes to consumer rights.

  • djones145 on 06/07/2023 - 14:29
    +1

    who needs this book when we have ozbargain forums

    its a better and more interesting read

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 06/07/2023 - 15:34
    +2

    Step 1: assume everything is a scam

    • jv on 06/07/2023 - 15:48
      -2

      like Dan's Suburban Rail Loop ?

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 06/07/2023 - 15:56
        +3

        im not up to speed with the happenings of melbourne, but sure - why not.

        • jv on 06/07/2023 - 16:09

          The $60 billion white elephant that Dan wants as a trophy…

      • pharkurnell on 06/07/2023 - 16:00
        +2

        Like all politicians… ?

      • ihfree on 06/07/2023 - 19:34

        Nah, like Sky News taking that sweet public money through the News Media Bargaining code

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