Australians are being warned of a new phone scam which has already seen individual victims lose up to $18,000.

The ACCC said Australians were losing $110,000 nationally each month to this scam in 2019, which has been reported across several states. The scammer tells the victim that their private computer or mobile device has been hacked, and convinced the victim to allow them to install software on their device.
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