Australia's overheated property market has become a target for hackers — and they're scamming millio
- May 17, 2022
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The scammers' first email to Kelly and her husband arrived in the small hours of the night, when they were sleeping.
"Due to the ongoing bank audit on our account," the email read, "please see attached our subsidiary trust account details for the payment of $25,000 deposit."
The email address looked legitimate — it was the real estate agent's.
Kelly and her husband, both young engineers and "tech savvy", were at the pointy end of buying a house in Western Australia.
And so the next day, Kelly's husband sent their hard-earned home deposit to a scammer, and never saw that money again.
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