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Scam data

See the latest data on ATO impersonation scams.

Last updated 13 May 2025

Latest scam data

April update

In April 2025, we received 6,189 reports of ATO impersonation scams, which is a 4% decrease from March.

There were no reports of payments made to scammers.

The demographic who most reported providing personal information to scammers were people over 65 years old.

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Scam channel data

We continue to observe email and SMS as the primary channel used by scammers when targeting the community. These channels combined make up 99.3% of all scams reported to us in April.

Table 1: Financial year to date scam channel data

Month

Email

SMS

Phone

Social media

Other

April 2025

96.5%

2.8%

0.5%

0.2%

0.0%

March 2025

98.5%

1.0%

0.4%

0.1%

0.0%

February 2025

97.9%

1.7%

0.4%

0.0%

0.0%

January 2025

90.9%

8.1%

0.9%

0.1%

0.0%

December 2024

90.4%

8.9%

0.6%

0.1%

0.0%

November 2024

91.8%

7.2%

0.8%

0.2%

0.0%

October 2024

77.5%

20.8%

1.3%

0.4%

0.0%

September 2024

82.5%

15.6%

1.2%

0.7%

0.0%

August 2024

76.7%

21.7%

1.3%

0.3%

0.0%

July 2024

78.9%

18.4%

2%

0.6%

0.1%

Table 2: Running total scam channel data for 2024–25 financial year

Email

SMS

Phone

Social media

Other

90.4%

8.6%

0.8%

0.2%

0.0%

The social media category includes scams that occur through platforms like Facebook, X, LinkedIn and WhatsApp.

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