Weiters scammed

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A guy I work with has an upcoming 100k tax bill he will have to pay for capital gains.
He has already received a fake ATO invoice for it. How the hell does that happen?
You would have to think his accountant has been hacked but who knows?

I had a friend who was stitched up by his accountant, an accountant who turned out to be in partnership with the crooks handing out critical intelligence for a spotters fee.

There is very little you can do about this, because the accountant already has all the information they need to stitch you up, and if they turn bad you're stuffed.

Not saying that is the case for you friend, but it happens.

It also happens because anybody can be under the influence of crooks, because of debt, drug addiction, blackmail of all sorts of forms of influence and dependency. One that is more common than people realise is accountants or bureaucrats who have family in a foreign country who are threatened by organised crime.