This guide provides financial indicators to help businesses, including digital currency exchange providers, recognise and report criminal activity through digital currencies.
Digital currencies are increasing in value and acceptance as Australians have rapidly taken up this new technology. Digital currencies and blockchain technology enable digital transactions and financial products and services in new online networks, environments and marketplaces.
This financial crime guide includes practical information and key indicators to help your business understand, identify and report suspicious activity where someone could be the target of a ransomware payment, or trying to profit from a ransomware payment.
Cybercriminals try to infect a computer or network, and then demand a ransom payment to unlock or decrypt the victim’s computer system. These attacks can disrupt businesses and critical services, and cost significant time and resources to recover from.
This financial crime guide will help businesses identify and report suspicious activity related to forced sexual servitude. Forced sexual servitude is a form of slavery and represents around 30% of slavery cases in Australia.
Victims are forced to provide sexual services against their will, are unable to refuse violent or unsafe practices, and must hand over most – if not all – of their money to the perpetrators. It is a lucrative business for criminals, who make significant profits through this criminal activity.
This guide provides financial indicators to help financial services businesses to detect and report potential fraud and misuse of taxpayer funds through Services Australia administered emergency and disaster payments.
This guide provides financial indicators to help financial service providers to target, detect and disrupt criminal communication or abuse through payment text fields.
Organised criminals use ‘cuckoo smurfing’ as a method of laundering money to disguise and integrate their funds across borders to profit from and further enable their illegal activities.
Generally this method of money laundering relies on exploiting the bank accounts of customers expecting to receive legitimate funds. These customers are often unaware that the funds transferred into their accounts are the proceeds of crime.
To protect Australia’s financial system against exploitation, AUSTRAC’s Fintel Alliance has developed this financial crime guide on cuckoo smurfing.
This financial crime guide will help the financial services sector to identify, monitor and report suspected fraud against the NDIS.
This guide explains how illegal wildlife trafficking takes place, and specific indicators that can help you identify and report this type of activity.
This report identifies and explains the key indicators of illegal phoenix activity in the labour hire and payroll industry.
This report has been developed to assist financial service providers and law enforcement agencies to detect suspect transactions by providing updated financial and environmental indicators to more effectively combat child sexual exploitation.