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  • 2022-10-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Doctored news report promotes scam about 'Australian bank investment scheme' (en)
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  • A doctored news report with hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook falsely claims Australia's Commonwealth Bank has been offering an investment programme that earns over 500 dollars daily. The bank told AFP the post is a scam. The original news report in fact discusses cleaners who earn higher salaries than university graduates; it has been digitally altered to add references to the Commonwealth Bank. The doctored video was viewed more than 270,000 times after it was published on Facebook on September 21 . The video's caption states in part: How did a family from Melbourne move to a new house thanks to investments? The investment program from Commonwealth Bank has become available for residents of Australia. The first users are already earning from $500 daily. The video appears to show a news report from A Current Affair, an Australian news programme, which begins with an introduction from its host Deborah Knight before cutting to clips of different interviewees. At the video's 23-second mark , a voiceover can be heard saying: Commonwealth Bank programme is a programme that analyses the exchange market as well as other sources, then it automatically looks for profitable deals and makes them. The voiceover then directs people to sign up for the purported programme on a website and instructs them to wait for a call. A screenshot of the Facebook post as of October 24, 2022. The post is a scam , a representative for Commonwealth Bank told AFP on October 25. We're aware of this scam and our team has requested that Facebook remove the fraudulent adverts, the representative told AFP. Our team regularly monitors our social media channels for scams posing as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and work directly with social media organisations to report, remove and block these from occurring. Doctored report A Google search for the keywords A Current Affair and absolute domestics shown in the video found the clip has been doctored. It corresponds to a report published here on the YouTube channel of A Current Affair on July 18, 2022. The original report is about cleaners earning higher salaries than university graduates. Its audio, however, had been doctored to insert the voiceover that mentions the purported investment programme. Below is a screenshot comparison of the doctored video (left) and its corresponding frame from the original clip (right): A spokesperson for Nine Network -- the media organisation that airs A Current Affair -- told AFP the video in the false post is 100 per cent a fake report. The voiceover is not that of an A Current Affair reporter, the spokesperson said. The creator has dubbed a misleading voice track over genuine A Current Affair pictures and an introduction by host Deborah Knight. (en)
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