offers support to people scammed online, has been hearing from a victim every business hour since March, its managing director told Guardian Australia. “This is becoming increasingly common.
For some of these people they have lost their entire life savings,” Prof David Lacey said. Related: Australia is making Google and Facebook pay for news: what difference will the code make?
Janice*, a 77-year-old grandmother from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, saw an ad on Facebook earlier this year featuring Forrest promoting a bitcoin investment scheme.
She clicked through to find out more and was presented with a story on a fake news site that also referred to The Project host Waleed Aly.
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