General Acorn

[Mr Hunt 52]

Hey guys and girls

​Anyone here ever been investigated for fraud or claimed they were scammed or fraud?

 

Today I was.

 

I had to sit at a police station for over 3 hours. I had many different people talk to me.

And one that kept cropping up was Acorn.

​A simple nut.. so I thought.

 

Acorn is the acryonym for Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network.

 

​​I ​Personally have never heard of them before but they are now one big entity trying to stop cybercrime, ​From paedophiles, grooming, phishing, scamming, and bullying.

 

What do you guys think? It'll help prevent said crimes, or the crime is just one wave after another?

[ViRaLSanity 5.8k]

Hey guys and girls

​Anyone here ever been investigated for fraud or claimed they were scammed or fraud?

 

Today I was.

 

I had to sit at a police station for over 3 hours. I had many different people talk to me.

And one that kept cropping up was Acorn.

 

​A simple nut.. so I thought.

 

Acorn is the acryonym for Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network.

 

​​I ​Personally have never heard of them before but they are now one big entity trying to stop cybercrime, ​From paedophiles, grooming, phishing, scamming, and bullying.

 

What do you guys think? It'll help prevent said crimes, or the crime is just one wave after another?

Im australian and what is this?

[Mr Hunt 52]

The new system police are using to knuckle down cyber crime activities.

[ViRaLSanity 5.8k]

The new system police are using to knuckle down cyber crime activities.

i think it's good then.

[Mr Hunt 52]

It has flaws just looking at the form that you have to complete.
 

Select the type of cybercrime that best describes the incident you would like to report

Spam or phishing

Online scam or fraud

Online identity theft

Issues buying and selling online

Attacks on a computer system or virus

Cyber bullying, sexting, online harassment or stalking

Illegal, prohibited or objectionable material online

Online child abuse or child sex abuse material

The above descriptions do not describe the incident

 

That's all well and good until the next question is asked. ( same question for anything you click on)

Has any resolution process been carried out?

Was the victim the buyer or the seller.

It needs to be that the questions are more directed at specific accusations or victimisations rather then the same general jargon.

Updated June 9, 2016 by Mr Hunt