this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
48 points (100.0% liked)
Australia
4867 readers
112 users here now
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
Before you post:
If you're posting anything related to:
- The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
- Politics, post it to Australian Politics
- World News/Events, post it to World News
- A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian
If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News
Rules
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
- When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
Banner Photo
Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition
Recommended and Related Communities
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
- Australian News
- World News (from an Australian Perspective)
- Australian Politics
- Aussie Environment
- Ask an Australian
- AusFinance
- Pictures
- AusLegal
- Aussie Frugal Living
- Cars (Australia)
- Coffee
- Chat
- Aussie Zone Meta
- bapcsalesaustralia
- Food Australia
- Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.
https://aussie.zone/communities
Moderation
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Sadly I see a lot of victims of scams / identity fraud in my work.
My advice to people generally is:
Be vigilant, don't click links in emails, don't talk to people who call you, have conversations with the people you care about reminding them to also be vigilant.
For access to government services, set up the myId app for 2fa, don't use SMS.
For other services, use a 2fa code generator, or SMS if that's all thats available.
Use a password manager, but be wary that non-technical people might find this out of reach. Their browser's built in password management is better than nothing.
Your State's department of transport probably lets you lock your profile so your drivers license number can't be used to verify your identity. Be aware that you'll need to unlock this when you want to allow someone to confirm your id.
Similarly you can lock your credit rating at experian or equifax: