Hunter police issue ATO scam warning

By Belinda-Jane Davis
Updated August 13 2015 - 4:45pm, first published 1:50pm
Hunter police issue ATO scam warning
Hunter police issue ATO scam warning

A BOLD scam that claims a warrant for your arrest will be issued within 24 hours unless you pay up is circling in the Hunter. A man, who claims to be from the Australian Taxation Office or the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, phoned at least 20 residents in the Maitland area on Thursday morning and told them if they did not pay what they owed a warrant would be issued for their arrest.

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