Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart issues alert over social media investment scam using her image
Gina Rinehart has issued an alert over an investment scam bearing her image that’s doing the rounds on social media, the second time she’s had to do so this year. Australia’s wealthiest person posted a brief statement on her private company’s website about the scam, showing a doctored image of her seemingly on the Today morning TV show, with the strap emblazoned “Loophole to Riches: Gina Rinehart about her income”.
Discussion with Dr Jacqueline Drew, an Associate Professor of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University | On the topic of scams current in online platforms
It’s just prolific and there’s no sign of these types of scams decreasing in the near future. So, you know, Australia in 2021 lost about $2 billion to scams and in 2022 that went up to $3 billion. So it you know, the amount of scams happening and the amount of money that Australians are losing is just enormous.
Discussion on Cyber crime algorithms, and social media scams as they relate to Mrs Gina Rinehart
The reason I’m calling is on Facebook. Every second or third ad is this Gina Rinehart. Um, invest in a share of a company and you get $15,000 a month or $20,000 or something or other. So generally, the scammers will use you know, celebrities to leverage the investment opportunity. So they’ll put fake reviews on there as well to make it look more legitimate.
