{"id":571589,"date":"2026-03-29T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:21:23","slug":"how-terrorists-are-duping-ordinary-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571589\/","title":{"rendered":"How terrorists are duping ordinary Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Australians are being warned that terrorist organisations are posing as charities online in a bid to elicit donations and funnel money overseas, federal police have warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Australian Federal Police Joint Threat Financing Group said it was aware of terrorists using falsified charity credentials to con unwitting Australians into contributing to their cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The AFP said the donations are disguised as lawful contributions but fund terror activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTerrorist organisations pretending to be charities is a longstanding tactic used to con people out of their money and fund terrorist activity,\u201d Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Portrait of Invisible man in the hood isolated on black\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6555221f87e04c100d97de9a9d1a746e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Australians are being warned they may be unwittingly contributing to terrorist organisations posing as charities online. Photo: iStock<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"AFP\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d4aecaf52ea8c1494377a518fdb8a316.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AFP assistant commissioner Stephen Nutt. Picture: NewsWire\/Martin Ollman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThese terror groups don\u2019t care how they get financial support or if they exploit the goodwill of ordinary people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf you are donating money, make sure it is to an established and registered charity that is running verified appeals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Under Commonwealth law, it is a crime to get funds to and finance terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And the AFP urged ordinary Australians to do their due diligence about where their donations are going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They advise using the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission register to check whether a charity is registered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The register also lists where the charity works and who it benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre deputy chief executive Dr John Moss said terrorist organisations exploit the goodwill of people to elicit donations to fund terror activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAUSTRAC works closely with our partners through the JTFG to identify suspicious funds flows and stop them reaching terrorist organisations overseas,\u201d Dr Moss said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians are being warned that terrorist organisations are posing as charities online in a bid to elicit donations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,9461,280635,44],"class_list":["post-571589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australians","tag-charity-works","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}