Online Scams are prevalent in Australia. Here are a few statistics:
online auction fraud (when goods are misrepresented or undelivered) was the most reported type of fraud and accounted for 44.9% of consumer complaints.
19% of complaints were due to undelivered goods.
About 70% of fraud victims were scammed through websites.
About 30% of fraud victims were scammed through email.
From 2005 to 2009, the number of scam complaints every year rose from 100,000 to nearly 300,000.
In Australia, between June 2013 and June 2014, a total of 1,526,528 scams were reported with a total of $350,948,463 in fraud transactions.