DYK? - Its SCAM Awareness Week! 25-29 August

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/

At Connelly’s Office National we believe that most people don’t think enough like criminals to understand how they may be targeted by Criminals and Scammers, so we have embraced Scam Awareness week in 2025.

Our aim is to help educate people in our community to find out more about Scams and provide information and methods to help protect themselves.

Here are some statistics from SCAMWATCH  for the first 5 months of 2025.

Click the SCAMWATCH link to find out more

This graph represents interactive data from scam reports that have been made to the National Anti-Scam Centre from January through May 2025.

Education and Knowledge are the key to protecting yourself and our businesses in this ever advancing and complex world of Scammers and Cyber Security. Below we have provided links to FREE information and websites that we believe will be most beneficial to helping you protect yourself and your organistion.

National Anti-Scam Centre – is a virtual centre that sits within the ACCC, guided by an advisory board.

Collaboration - between government, industry and law enforcement to make Australia a harder target for scammers

Disruption – at scale cuts criminals off fast and deters other scammers from those methods

Awareness & Protection – We educate and protect the community through our Scamwatch services

https://www.nasc.gov.au/

Scamwatch – Scamwatch is run by the National Anti-Scam Centre to collect reports about scams to help warn others and to take action to stop scams.

Scamwatch also provide up-to-date information to help you spot and avoid scams.

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/

Cyberwardens – are on a mission to ensure Australian small business operate in a cyber safe environment. By bolstering the cyber capabilities of people who work in small business, we make it easier for small business to increase their cyber posture to prevent attacks and be resilient to them. Our goal is simple. Cyber criminals consider Australia ‘closed for business.’

Connelly’s team use CyberWardens for training for our whole team and we encourage you to Sign up you and your team for the FREE training

https://cyberwardens.com.au/

ACCC – Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

We are Australia's national competition, consumer, fair trading and product safety regulator.

https://www.accc.gov.au/

If you are not sure where to start, or just want some more help from an expert team that are supporting and helping people with this type of stuff everyday, contact the team at Connelly's Office National - Ph: 6382 4099 or Email: protection@connellys.com.au

You can even check out some more information about our 360 All Round Pro-Active Protection and Support plans by clicking here.