Comment on Millions of dollars lost in ATO myGov scams that 'rattle confidence' in the tax system
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Tax agent here.
I’ve seen a bunch of tax payers fall victim to this. It’s not sophisticated. Just answer people’s secret questions to access their mygov accounts. That’s it.
Thereafter it’s trivial to request changes to a tax return that will generate a refund of $20k, whatever really.
It would be trivial for the ATO to intercept. A highschool student could write a database query to reveal the fraudulent changes.
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Sounds like we need a royal commission with all the trimmings then.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Not really.
Cancel all mygov accounts that are using secret questions as 2 factor auth. Job done.
Most of the “scammers” are peoples junkie kids. I shit you not.
They can’t / won’t do that though because then you can’t blame old / poor people for being old / poor and not being able to access services.