The Australian government is going to try to stop scams in a different way: holding banks, telcos, and social media companies responsible. How will it work?
Scams are everywhere and anyone can be fooled, so how do we make things better? A new plan has been introduced by the government to extend responsibility to the organisations big enough to take it on. Banks, telcos, and social media services will shortly need to act on scam reports.
Wondering what’s going on? Pickr’s Leigh Stark joined ABC’s Saskia Mabin to talk about the approach and how companies will be forced to take action when scams hit.
Tune into the November 7 edition of ABC Canberra Drive to hear it from the 1:22 mark (1 hour, 22 minutes) before ABC takes the recording down, usually a week after it goes up.
Correction: When Leigh said “trillion” in regards to the losses incurred from scams in Australia, he actually meant to say “billion”.
