Phone scams up 40 per cent this year

Updated October 26 2020 - 10:26am, first published 10:23am
Australia's mandarin speakers are being particularly targetted by phone scam fraudsters.
Australia's mandarin speakers are being particularly targetted by phone scam fraudsters.

Scammers, often pretending to be from government departments, have intimidated people into handing over nearly $9 million this year.

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