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Unsolicited scam telephone calls still plague Australia, with a new report just released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealing that six in 10 Australians are more concerned with scam calls now compared to five years ago.

Australian businesses have lost $2.8 million to scammers in 2018 as hackers target business emails in a new scam, prompting the competition watchdog, the ACCC, to issue a call to businesses to urgently review how they verify and pay accounts and invoices.

Phishing, unexpected prize and lottery scams and identity theft are among the 1800 scams which have hit Australia’s indigenous communities, causing losses of $3 million so far this year.