Each year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) collects data from more than 20,000 Australians in relation to their experiences of different types of fraud, including scams.​

The Consumer Policy Research Centre (CPRC) has worked with data released 20 March 2024 (for the 2022-23 financial year period) to present some key findings that explore the incidence and reporting of scams in Australia, and what this has looked like over the last few years.

This briefing note:

• explores the incidence of scam experience in Australia​
• determines rates of reporting of scams, and
• maps trends over time.​