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This follows the passage of legislation through the Australian parliament
Scammers are using a global IT outage to run phishing scams, so Australians have been advised to exercise extra caution when sharing their information online.
FBI officials warned the real cost to Americans could exceed $12.5 billion, noting not all online scams are reported.
