It was a scam so simple it took just minutes on your phone, where you could tell the tax office how much money to pay you, and it came through within days.
it (ATO) also downgraded its assessment of external fraud risks from “severe” to “low” two months before the scam took off in mid-2021.
I can guarantee I know how this happened. Some pube thought they needed to remove all ‘severe’ risks from a risk register and made some idiotic claims that no one dared speak out against.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It’s not really a “scam” it’s just tax fraud.
Nobody is checking.
Honestly, do a db search for refunds > $100k, ask those tax payers for invoices for their three biggest claims.
A team of one person using this method could have reviewed several dozen of these a day.