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This is how you can inform if you contributed to a fraud this bushfire season

This is how you can inform if you contributed to a fraud this bushfire season

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February 07, 2020 05: 11:38

When Hayley Chamberlain received an unsolicited text from a “firefighter” on Instagram, she instantly ended up being suspicious.

Bottom line:

  • There are 500 bushfire-related rip-offs circulating, consisting of phony sites that look similar to a charity’s
  • The ACCC states fraudsters are impersonating relatives of bushfire victims on crowdfunding websites
  • Some indications of a fraud are bad spelling, dodgy logos and social media accounts with few followers or posts

In the message ‘Greg Edmonds’ declared to be “a well-being officer for the wild fire in Australia”.

Edmonds’ profile mentioned the expressions firefighter, Helpsaveautralia [sic] and australiafires2019 and

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