I lost over $1,000 through the social media app, TikTok. Going through Tik Tok, I was being targeted by content creators pushing AI Marketing who were showing their profit margins made from their investments. After some time of following one of these creators and seeing how much money was made and how easy it was to take your earnings out of the account, I decided to invest. They only accepted cryptocurrency and I created an account and transferred over $1,000AUD in cryptocurrency. It wasn’t until I tried to transfer the money out of the account that I realised it was a scam, as I wasn’t able to take money out of the account. I tell my friends and family to not trust what they see on social media if it seems too good to be true.

We lost $12,000 after invoices were intercepted and tampered with by a scammer who was re-directing the money. After a family member passing and some renovations done to our family home, we received invoices to pay for these costs via email. Once received, the invoices were paid using the information provided. It wasn’t until weeks later when we were followed up about payment on multiple invoices that we did some further investigation and found that our emails were being intercepted by a scammer and the bank details on the invoices were being changed and reforwarded to us to pay. Now I tell my friends and family before paying any invoice received via email, be sure to double-check payment details with the payee, either in person or over the phone.