Daylight Robbery

In this  follow-up to Episode 8 of Daylight Robbery, Sarah and Laine finally win back their $252,000 after falling victim to a real estate fraud during the purchase of their dream home. Thanks to being on A Current Affair - which is exactly what helped Jacomi Du Preez from Episode 3 - ANZ agreed to  But while their bank ANZ eventually did the right thing, others—like Hope and Tom & Will and Je...

Your Phone. Their Payday. A single scam text can open the back door to your bank account — and you might never get your money back. In this episode of Daylight Robbery, we reveal how spoofed SMS messages from trusted senders like Australia Post or your bank are being used in sophisticated scams that banks fail to stop. Katrina clicked one fake Australia Post link. Her Chinese bank stopped the char...

When a middle-aged mum gets riled, watch out. Here's why I made Daylight Robbery. I've chatted to more than 35 financial crime victims in Australia. Every story is different. Every story is complex and extremely difficult to make sense of. That's because the criminals are smarter than governments, banks, telcos and big tech companies. They push the boundaries, move faster and have a raft of cheap...

They call romance scams pig butchering - a brutal name which means ‘killing pig game’. Australia is experiencing real estate butchering: the slaughter of our property market through scams and fraud committed on Australian banking platforms. Our houses are the second most expensive in the world and overseas crime gangs know it's a cinch to steal home deposits and settlement funds, especially no...

Meet the woman determined to wreak vengeance upon the scammers who stole her half a million dollar divorce settlement. Jo O'Brien took the unprecedented step of suing the bank and knocking on the door of her scammers to return the $500,000 she'd been conned into believing would be an AMP term deposit.

When finance professionals and stockbrokers lose the battle against fraud, scams and mule bank accounts, what has to change? Australia's banking system is riddled with mules willing to rent or sell their bank account for as little as $50. Predators at the top of the crime chain exploit legal loopholes in AUSTRAC regulations, electronic payments, and bank policies to stay ahead of the law and targe...

When mates turn into transnational digital bank robbers, the fallout is inevitable. The case of O'Brien vs Supercheap Security exposes a global trade in mule bank accounts fueling digital fraud, money laundering, and financial crime.  In this episode of Daylight Robbery , we unpack how Muhammad Ali Waheed and Hassan Mujtaba Mehdi orchestrated a bank fraud scheme that stole $1.36 million from Austr...

Mark Uytendaal lost his life savings in a fake AMP term deposit scam. His story is just the tip of the iceberg. Australian banking laws and weak consumer protections enable organised crime syndicates to plunder everyday Australians’ savings—money meant for homes, retirement, and looking after ageing parents. Banks allow these stolen funds to be laundered overseas, often never to be recovered. This...

From gullible to guilty: how a work-from-home job scam stole $255,000 and turned a Melbourne mum into a money launderer for Chinese organised crime scammer, Neala. Discover the dark world of socially engineered job scams—a growing crisis costing victims billions. Discover how manipulative Neala used WhatsApp and deep knowledge of how Aussie banks work to steal from people she recruits through work...

Organised criminals are mimicking banks so convincingly that even finance professionals fall victim to their digital bank robberies. This gripping episode uncovers the extraordinary stories of Australians like Jacomi and David, who fought back against the odds to reclaim their stolen fortunes. Jacomi is a finance professional conned out of $760K after her husband’s death. Her relentless pursuit—he...

We lift the lid on the hi tech heists stealing billions from unsuspecting Australians, targeted for their valuable real estate and savings. Daylight Robbery explores the raft of digital bank robberies happening across Australian banks. We interview investigators, victims and finance experts to explain how shady scam syndicates operate across borders to commit digital bank robbery at an industrial...

Australia is under siege from digital bank robbery, a crime where the getaway car is nearly always a mule bank account. Organised crime syndicates operate shadow call centres from South East Asian countries but come from Britain, Russia, China and Israel and target first home buyers, retirees, and anyone needing to do a large bank transfer. They steal billions from Australians every year. In this...

This bloodless true crime story investigates how the violent armed bank robberies Australia dealt with in the 1970s and 1980s have morphed into the most profitable crime on earth through digital bank robberies. We talk to Australian first home buyers battling the second most expensive real estate prices on the planet who are losing tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital ban...