How the ATO failed to stop a $2b scam so simple you could do it on your phone
www.abc.net.au
It was a scam so simple it took just minutes on your phone, where you could tell the tax office how much money to pay you, and it came through within days.

It was a scam so simple it took just minutes on your phone, where you could tell the tax office how much money to pay you, and it came through within days.

  • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    it (ATO) also downgraded its assessment of external fraud risks from “severe” to “low” two months before the scam took off in mid-2021.

    I can guarantee I know how this happened. Some pube thought they needed to remove all ‘severe’ risks from a risk register and made some idiotic claims that no one dared speak out against.