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ANZ's line of defence against scams
Australian Community Media
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8/26/2024
Australians reported a record 601,000 of scams in 2023. Ahead of Scams Awareness Week, running from 26 - 30 August, ANZ has provided info on the sophisticated financial scams cutting a swathe through our communities. Vision courtesy: ANZ
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There's absolutely been a rise in the scams, even in regional communities.
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It's, I feel sorry for them, I just, I feel awful.
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I think of my own loved ones and my own family members, my sister or my nephew had this happen.
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Every customer, it's my job to protect them, protect their money, make sure they're not
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giving it to someone they don't know.
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My name's Cameron Reid, I'm a banking consultant in Sunbury, Victoria.
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Hi, I'm Jeanette and I work at Biribi Plaza.
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The way we as banking consultants would be aware of scams is, it's not so much factual,
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it's more of the customer's behaviour, or they'll be nervous, agitated, or they'll be
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trying to rush a transaction.
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It's essentially like you're in an abusive relationship, so they'll try and isolate you
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from family and friends because they don't want you to discuss what you're doing with
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anyone else.
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I've had a customer and she said she had a boyfriend that she'd met through social media
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and he needed to actually go into her internet banking so he could fly to meet her in Australia.
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She was nervous, she was fidgety, and she was rushing me, just saying, I just need,
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I just need.
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And the phone calls were coming in from this boyfriend during this conversation, saying,
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have you got it yet, have you got it yet?
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I said to her, have you physically met this man?
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And she said no.
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And I said, I don't believe this man is in New Zealand.
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She started crying and she laid her hand close to mine, so I just held her hand and
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said we will help.
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They'll work on people for a long time so that the customer actually trusts the scammer
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more than they trust the bank when the bank is asking questions because they're trying
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to protect you.
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I first asked him how much he wanted to send, so he's like 20k.
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He said, oh, the person on the phone said to me that a truck's going to come to my address
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and give me 300k.
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I said, what government body would do that?
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He goes, I've spoken to my friends on Facebook, they did the same thing, they received the
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money and I knew straight away that obviously his Facebook's been hacked.
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And I said, do you realise that it's not your friends that are talking to you?
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This could be anybody and you're not going to get your money back.
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I think that's when it clicked.
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So it can be very hard to persuade someone they're in a scam, because understandably,
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they don't want to believe it.
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Sometimes customers will go, no, I've had enough, they'll close their accounts and they'll
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open up at a different bank and try again.
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They target all different age groups, but especially older people because they tend
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to have more savings.
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We did have an elderly gentleman who came to make an urgent deposit because he had an
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opportunity to buy real estate that he felt was too good to miss out on.
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I said, with the contract of sale, he didn't have any of that.
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He had a screwed up piece of paper that looked like a napkin with some numbers written on it.
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They will always pressure you to act quickly.
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They don't want you to take your time to stop and think.
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One that we're seeing recently, they actually send people round to your house to collect
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your credit card or cash from you and people will leave it in their letterbox.
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The fact that the scammer was able to arrange an Uber to go to the customer's address to
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pick up $5,000 cash tells me that the scammers could be in the next suburb or the next street.
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They could be someone you went to school with, someone at your footy club.
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They are the scammers.
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Our role is to educate and prevent as much as possible.
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