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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.

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[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

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.