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During 2007 in Australia, 329,000 people fell victim to at least one type of scam by responding to or engaging with the unsolicited offer.

The three main categories of selected scams were:

* lotteries (84,100 victims)
* pyramid schemes (70,900)
* phishing and related scams (57,800)

Accounting for all the other kinds of fraud as well, nearly one billion dollars ($980 million) was lost by Australians during 2007.

refer: Personal Fraud, Australia 2007 (cat. no. 4528.0) - Australian Bureau of Statistics

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