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Event: National Scams Awareness Week – “Let’s talk scams” – Industry Panel Discussion

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Each year, millions of Australians lose money to fraud. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Australians reported over $851 million lost to fraud in 2020, up from $634 million in 2019. While these monetary losses are significant, there are also many wide ranging non-financial harms that result from fraud. The impact can be both devastating and life changing for victims, yet there is a shame and stigma that prevents many from talking about it.

Monday 8th November marks the beginning of National Scams Awareness Week. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Let’s talk scams”, and we intend to do this.

Please join us for a panel discussion on the topic of fraud and scams, facilitated by Associate Professor Cassandra Cross, with the following leading industry experts from across Australia.  This event will run both in-person and via livestream webinar. 

Our panel will include:

  1. Delia Rickard, Deputy Commissioner, – Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  2. Sarah Dreaver, Manager, Financial Crime Investigations, Customer Protect – Suncorp
  3. Detective Sergeant Karen McAteer – Fraud and Cyber Crime Group, Queensland Police Service
  4. Victoria Schiffer, Delivery Manager APAC Security and Tom Rhind, Trust and Safety Manager – Seek

Please register via the registration link below.

Dr Cassandra Cross is the Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, QUT. She also holds a position as Associate Professor in the School of Justice, QUT. In 2021, she completed a two-year Senior Research Fellowship with the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre exploring romance fraud victimisation. Dr Cross is an international expert on fraud, having worked with victims and related organisations globally. In 2011, while working for the Queensland Police Service, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to examine the prevention and support of online fraud victims worldwide. Since taking up her position at QUT in 2012, she has continued this research, publishing over 70 outputs across the policing, prevention, and victim support aspects of fraud. Further, she has been awarded over AUD$1.3million in funding, largely to drive her research in this area. She is co-author (with Professor Mark Button) of the book Cyber frauds, scams and their victims published by Routledge in 2017.

Drinks and canapes will follow the panel discussion.

REGISTER HERE  

 

 

 

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