Australians looking online for love are often left heartbroken — and nationally more than $40 million out of pocket — police are warning as part of Scams Awareness Week. Cold-hearted criminals are targeting lonely people through romance scams, with South Australia Police sharing the real-life story of Karen* from Adelaide who lost $50,000 to a fraudster. Karen started a relationship, via an …

“Millions” of people could fall victim to scams using artificial intelligence to clone their voices, a UK bank has warned. Starling Bank, an online-only lender, said fraudsters are capable of using AI to replicate a person’s voice from just three seconds of audio found in, for example, a video the person has posted online. Scammers can then identify the person’s …

Just three seconds of audio could be enough for someone to get access to your savings, a major bank has warned. “Millions” of people could fall victim to scams using artificial intelligence to clone their voices, a UK bank has warned. Starling Bank, an online-only lender, said fraudsters are capable of using AI to replicate a person’s voice from just …

Lebanon’s civil defence department says five of its emergency workers have been killed by an Israeli air strike in the country’s south. The deaths follow a number of incidents in which Lebanese firefighters and paramedics claim they have been fired upon, or warned by the Israeli military not to rescue people or put out fires caused by bombing. Israeli and …

“Millions” of people could fall victim to scams using artificial intelligence to clone their voices, a UK bank has warned. Starling Bank, an online-only lender, said fraudsters are capable of using AI to replicate a person’s voice from just three seconds of audio found in, for example, a video the person has posted online. Scammers can then identify the person’s …

The failed assassination of Donald Trump has launched modern American politics into uncharted waters, as Joe Biden calls for a ratcheting down of rhetoric and Republicans blame him without knowing the motive of the would-be assassin. Trump will walk into this week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee as a defiant hero, while the Democrats continue to debate if Biden will …

Harriet Spring remembers the first phone call, in November. The man with the “posh British accent” on the other end introduced himself as “from ING” and asked if she was interested in good rates on fixed-term deposits. “Nothing crazy, nothing too out of the ordinary,” Mrs Spring said. “So, I didn’t think, ‘that sounds too good to be true’.” In …

A NSW police constable fired their gun at a car after the driver of the vehicle allegedly sped towards officers in Sydney’s inner west. The incident, which is under investigation, took place in an underground car park of a unit block in St Peters on Sunday morning. Three officers were called to the apartment complex about 1:15am, following reports of …

he father of the 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed an Assyrian Bishop at at Western Sydney church on Monday night was “shocked” and had not noted signs of extremism in his son, a community leader says. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly lunged at by the 16-year-old boy during a mass service at Assyrian Orthodox Church, Christ The Good Shepherd …

A religious leader has been stabbed and up to three others injured in an attack at a church in Sydney’s west. The attack happened at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley tonight while a bishop was giving a service that was being livestreamed online. Multiple police and ambulance crews have raced to the scene. The injured include four men, believed to be aged …