Overview
- The Australian Federal Police report that criminals file fraudulent third‑party submissions on the ReportCyber portal using stolen personal data to create believable cases.
- Impersonators call targets as supposed AFP officers, cite an official‑looking reference number, and use spoofed phone lines to increase credibility and urgency.
- In documented incidents, victims are handed to a second caller posing as a crypto platform representative who urges transfers to fake cold wallets.
- Detective Superintendent Marie Andersson stresses that genuine officers will never ask for access to crypto accounts, seed phrases, or banking information.
- The alert aligns with a broader crackdown on crypto fraud, with ASIC saying it has removed more than 14,000 scam and phishing sites since 2023 and the government moving to regulate crypto ATMs.