Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters
Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands
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| City: | Sydney |
| State: | Australia, Christmas Island and Coconut Island |
| Latitude: | -33.8678500 |
| Longitude: | 151.2073200 |
| Time zone: | Australia/Sydney (GMT +11) |
| Population: | 4,627,345 |
| Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia. It is on Australia's south-east coast, on the Tasman Sea. In June 2010 the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people (...) Wikipedia » | |
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| Hazard level: | 0 % |
| Number of ratings: | 1× |
| Latest rating: | Mar 16, 2023 Add comment |
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| Last viewed: | Jun 22, 2026 |
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Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands
Many of us now refuse to answer telephone calls from an unknown number, for fear that it could be a scam. And we dread receiving a text message, purportedly from our bank or a delivery firm, again due to concerns that it might be from fraudsters.
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Very crackly phone line, made it hard to understand what they were saying or clarify where they were calling from and why - something to do with fraud investigation apparently?
Neutral Mar 16, 2023 00