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Friday, August 02, 2024

Bruce Springsteen is now a billionaire

Criminals change phone and email details to prevent users from receiving myGov notifications – before altering tax returns and bank account details

Scammers are duping Australian taxpayers out of thousands of dollars by fraudulently accessing online government accounts during the annual rush to complete tax returns.

Federal government platforms are not immune to scams – with users of myGov being targeted in recent weeks. How do victims fall prey to those criminal scammers and how can people protect themselves?

Scammers are targeting myGov accounts during tax time. How can users protect their ATO refunds?


After losing a $1.6 million inheritance, Harriet Spring says banks need to do more to protect customers from fraud


Victoria Police arrest almost 350 people and seize $1.5 million worth of drug offences in operations targeting ‘iconic location’


Risk of 'wider war higher now than it's ever been' following Ismail Haniyeh's death


Bruce Springsteen is now a billionaire


Privatisation “the most significant policy error of the last 30 years”


Nation ‘broke & broken’, says new UK govt as it plans to repair economy Business Standard


‘I know we will win – and how’: Ukraine’s top general on turning the tables against Russia Luke Harding, Guardian





A study of the world’s most, and least, walkable cities (and those that rely most on public transport). Shocking but not shocking: “The 100 least active cities in the study are all found in North America.”


Yes, the vibes definitely have changed.  And some more vibe shift


New Macca bits


CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Wagner Group Column Mangled In Mali. “Remember Africa’s League of Assholes, the three Sahel nations (Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso) run by military regimes backed by Moscow mentioned in a LinkSwarm a week back? Yeah, Wagner’s fighting for them. And in Mali, a column of them using the same naked convoy tactics that have gotten so many Russians killed in Ukraine just got a bunch of them killed in Mali.”


 How the Left Censors the News


How should women dress in the more formal parts of the NYC financial sector? (WSJ)