Media Release
National Advance Fee Fraud Symposium 2009, Gold Coast
The State Crime Operations Command Fraud and Corporate Crime Group will be hosting the National Advance Fee Fraud Symposium 2009 today and tomorrow on the Gold Coast.This year’s theme is “Advance Fee Fraud – why cooperation can make a difference”. Speakers and delegates from across Australia, the United States, Nigeria and the United Kingdom will take part in the conference. Law enforcement representatives will join industry representatives to look at advance fee fraud and the significant impact it is having on businesses, organisations and the individual.
The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza, Surfers Paradise.
Speakers will include:
- Professor Jonathan Rusch, United States Department of Justice
- Susan Carr, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Peter Kell, Deputy Chair Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Andrew Bolton, Cupid Media
- Colin Woodcock, Head Crime Techniques (Fraud), Serious Organised Crime Agency, United Kingdom
- His Excellency Professor Sunday Oluwadare Agbi (High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria)
- Cees Schepp, Department of International Police Information, Netherlands Police Agency
Media are invited to attend the opening of the conference and the keynote address from Professor Jonathan Rusch this morning.
Where: Crowne Plaza, Gold Coast Highway, Surfers Paradise
When: Today, Thursday October 15
9am – opening of the conference by Commissioner of Police, Bob Atkinson and Detective Superintendent Brian Hay, Fraud and Corporate Crime Group.
9.15am-9.45am – Keynote address “Global mass marketing fraud” from Professor Jonathan Rusch, United States Department of Justice.
10.45am-11.15am – Paul Ducklin, Sophos “Social networking sites – a harvesting ground for advance fee fraud victims?”. Mr Ducklin will also be available at the conclusion of his presentation.
A timetable of speakers’ addresses and media opportunities for tomorrow, Friday October 16 will be issued this afternoon. Information can be obtained from media officer Amanda Lampe on 0407 375 594.
07 3015 2444
