Identity fraud survey: Find out if you are protected
It’s Identity Fraud Awareness Week 2013 this week running October 13 to October 19. Identity fraud can leave your credit [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-15T14:08:49+00:00 October 15th, 2013|Identity Theft, Industry News|
It’s Identity Fraud Awareness Week 2013 this week running October 13 to October 19. Identity fraud can leave your credit [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-03T14:19:09+00:00 October 3rd, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News|
Credit reporting agency Veda Advantage has just announced it will allow consumers to receive a copy of their credit score [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-09-26T14:25:22+00:00 September 26th, 2013|Industry News|
Telstra customers were overcharged over $30 million on global roaming charges between 2006 and 2012 – and under the new [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-09-19T14:27:24+00:00 September 19th, 2013|Consumer, Industry News|
Aaargh me hearties! MyCRA be helpin' to raise money and awareness of issues around childhood cancer support through ‘Talk Like [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-09-17T13:13:37+00:00 September 17th, 2013|Identity Theft|
Australian Federal Police announced late last week they had arrested two men producing fake identity material and committing credit card [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-03T14:26:51+00:00 September 10th, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News, Make Credit Work For You|
A NewsPoll survey sponsored by credit reporting agency, Dun & Bradstreet has found that financially strapped consumers would forego paying [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-03T14:28:39+00:00 September 3rd, 2013|Identity Theft|
A high priority alert has just been issued from Stay Smart Online in regards to malware-carrying emails supposedly from the [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-03T14:31:34+00:00 August 29th, 2013|Industry News|
BILL SHOCK! We’ve discussed it frequently. We hear about it frequently as credit repairers. Next month, the Australian Communications and [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-03T14:32:42+00:00 August 27th, 2013|Identity Theft|
An interesting story just out of the United States on ID theft attempts on the credit files of children. Whilst [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-03T14:33:50+00:00 August 20th, 2013|Identity Theft|
Stay Smart Online (SSO) has issued an urgent warning to Google Chrome users who save their passwords to their browser. [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-08-13T11:39:37+00:00 August 13th, 2013|Consumer, Industry News, Make Credit Work For You|
In this week’s ‘Make Credit Work For You’ post we look at credit cards. Do you currently have a credit [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-08-06T15:41:44+00:00 August 6th, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News|
The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut its cash rate to a low 2.5% - lower than during the GFC. [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-08-01T14:29:01+00:00 August 1st, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News|
Remember the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) Code? It was put in place in September last year after a swarm of [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-10-08T18:10:54+00:00 July 23rd, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News, Make Credit Work For You|
For someone who is locked out of mainstream credit because of their credit rating, their finance options become limited. But [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-07-23T11:19:34+00:00 July 23rd, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Identity Theft|
Stay Smart Online recently issued an alert about a number of new phishing emails carrying malware which have been identified [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-07-09T12:00:29+00:00 July 9th, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News|
The number of payday lenders is about to shrink due to new regulations, according to Paid International (formerly First Stop [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-07-04T13:24:06+00:00 July 4th, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News, Make Credit Work For You|
We recently read a comprehensive article on getting a free copy of your credit report written by Alex Wilson over [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-06-27T11:54:07+00:00 June 27th, 2013|Identity Theft, Industry News|
“Identity is one of our most valuable assets – if it is stolen, the stress and financial costs can last [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-06-18T15:16:21+00:00 June 18th, 2013|Identity Theft|
People are starting to get angry over scams and identity theft. As anyone with a computer, a telephone or who [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-06-18T14:02:19+00:00 June 18th, 2013|Identity Theft, Industry News|
The long-awaited amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 making reporting of serious data breaches mandatory, has been passed in the [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-06-11T13:45:25+00:00 June 11th, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News|
Guaranteed loans – they’ve become more prevalent as house prices rise, and as access to business credit changes – but this type [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-06-06T13:49:21+00:00 June 6th, 2013|Identity Theft, Industry News|
If you or someone in your family is a gamer, then you would be familiar with hacks. Hacks and cheats [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-06-04T16:29:57+00:00 June 4th, 2013|Industry News, Make Credit Work For You|
It may be a foreign concept to some people to turn to their bank when they are experiencing financial difficulty, [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-05-30T13:31:50+00:00 May 30th, 2013|Identity Theft, Industry News|
The Attorney-General has put before Parliament a mandatory data breach notification bill, which will require businesses and government agencies to [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-05-30T12:22:55+00:00 May 30th, 2013|Identity Theft, Industry News|
BE CAUTIOUS WITH EMAILS FROM BANKS –EVEN YOURS. You may have received a “Security Upgrade” email from Westpac recently. If [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-05-23T13:20:06+00:00 May 23rd, 2013|Identity Theft|
How can what you do online impact your ability to obtain credit? Understand the risks and protect your credit rating. [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-05-09T14:15:45+00:00 May 9th, 2013|Consumer, Industry News, Make Credit Work For You|
If you didn’t already know, interest rates are now at their all-time lowest at a reserve rate of 2.75 per [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-05-03T09:37:47+00:00 May 3rd, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Industry News, Make Credit Work For You, Privacy Commissioner|
In our last post for Privacy Awareness Week 2013, we set out some actions you can take now for your [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-05-02T10:21:13+00:00 May 2nd, 2013|Broker, Consumer, Identity Theft, Industry News, Privacy Commissioner|
Identity theft is an ever-growing threat to Australians and the commodity which is traded, sought after and misused for criminal [...]
By GrahamDoessel| 2013-05-01T09:50:23+00:00 May 1st, 2013|Industry News|
Do you have a plan to walk your business through privacy law reforms? The Office of the Information Commissioner (OAIC) [...]