THE AUTHORITY responsible for cracking down on scams is being scammed itself.
The Independent has run a number of stories warning of various phone scams, most recently by con artists pretending to be from the Australian Tax Office.
The stories contained warnings from Australian Securities and Investments Commission, which runs a website called SCAMwatch.
But this week the scam watchers sent out a media release urging consumers to be wary of cold-callers claiming to represent ASIC and asking for personal and financial details.
Maybe it’s the scammers’ revenge for being outed.
DIRTY tricks are emerging in the battle for our federal seat of Corangamite.
The office of Labor candidate Libby Coker this week emailed local media an image of Liberal MP Sarah Henderson’s vehicle in a parking space reserved for anglers with trailers at Torquay’s boat ramp.
Ms Henderson was parked “illegally”, the email alleged, forcing “several fishermen” to look elsewhere for a park.
The email conveniently failed to mention that Ms Henderson was attending a rally against the Geelong Star fishing trawler and had Torquay Angling Club’s blessing to use the parking area.
The image circulated was also carefully framed to leave out the dozens of other trailerless vehicles parked with Ms Henderson for the rally.
And to think the election might still be nearly 12 months away!
TALK about going down the wrong hole.
A Deakin University researcher has stumbled across a potential new treatment for tuberculosis while investigating prostate cancer.
And the discovery was made by Dr Luke Henderson, a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials.
Perhaps better-known for textile research, the institute is a world-leader in metals and steel research, electro-materials, corrosion, nanotechnology and composite materials.
With the team now poking and prodding about in all sorts of places, who knows what they might come up with next.
