{"id":5977,"date":"2024-02-15T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T06:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T06:07:52","slug":"media-professor-cassandra-cross-taylor-swift-scams-and-keeping-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2024\/02\/15\/media-professor-cassandra-cross-taylor-swift-scams-and-keeping-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Media:  Professor Cassandra Cross &#8211; Taylor Swift, scams and keeping safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4676\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2021\/09\/cassandra-cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Cassandra Cross has written a piece for The Conversation titled, <strong>&#8220;Desperate for Taylor Swift tickets?\u00a0 Here are cybersecurity tips to stay safe from scams.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the he Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/media-release\/swifties-beware-scammers-are-in-their-cruel-summer-era\">over A$135,000<\/a> already lost to ticket fraud for the Swift concerts, and the actual losses likely to be higher, Cross provides a number of ways to keep your tickets safe both at time of purchase and in the lead up to the concerts.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Cross&#8217; comments were also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/ticket-resale-scams-are-on-the-rise-ahead-of-taylor-swifts-tour-heres-how-to-protect-yourself\/pp9zftr1j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SBS News on 10 February 2024<\/a>\u00a0 and in an interview with<a href=\"https:\/\/app.mediaportal.com\/isentia\/#\/playnow\/v2?id=R00106038669&amp;channel=ABC%20Radio%20Sydney&amp;location=Australia&amp;date=2024-02-05T15:06:40&amp;program=Late%20Afternoons&amp;item_id=1051116352&amp;prospect_id=2716408250&amp;is_video=false&amp;keywords=Of%20Technology&amp;keywords=Queensland%20University&amp;expiry=1738768000&amp;signature=SGUKNnQU3-Eiz~PBS3rhxDV0xyystNC-q-kWiU~r1Ir99AWPYf5QnlGkKcp3tVqfS-bc8ka5wv1SKhtiEYXy9PR5HOGaMSm~EHv2cbDzM0kDEPic0ERz0F5vO4UX1ot8OJ1r9bPaTmKkPtb80PhlZdRKhyQTD5BmKxVXl3wUCImkgEV01XlMu3F9NAWaa96Ia8gwIRMETtwCTQ4GXCyuhiFCLhKVxG2DSQInxS2dTU5Bzyj84X3gWtkrg5TBFUygIehwZUJcAioQ8R16G2dNK5AleO95NO4dG3-VzqY~13Wnkh6jfYgDTLXLzEqHMI0feKlY7PJkMn2bzWEQSq6x2Q__\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ABC Sydney on 5 February 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/desperate-for-taylor-swift-tickets-here-are-cybersecurity-tips-to-stay-safe-from-scams-223086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Cassandra Cross has written a piece for The Conversation titled, &#8220;Desperate for Taylor Swift tickets?\u00a0 Here are cybersecurity tips to stay safe from scams.&#8221; With the he Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reporting over A$135,000 already lost to ticket fraud for the Swift concerts, and the actual losses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":5978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5979,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}