Indigenous Australians are losing tens of millions of dollars to scammers every year. In this episode, we travel around the country to look at how online scams are being targeted to remote communities, and trace their story back beyond social media.

Disconnect is a podcast about the internet in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Produced by RMIT University, led by Ellie Rennie, Indigo Holcombe-James and Tyson Yunkaporta, with producer James Milsom, Disconnect was funded by Telstra as an action within their Reconciliation Action Plan 2018-2021 (hyperlinks below).

RMIT University: https://digital-ethnography.com/

Telstra's Reconciliation Action Plan: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/about-us/community-environment/pdf/tel024_telstra-reconciliation-action-plan-2018-2021.pdf

In this episode you heard from:

Jennifer Barda

Pamela Lynch Kngwarraye

Lynda Edwards, Financial Counselling Australia

Tom Holder, PY Media

Chloe James, inDigiMOB

Percy Bishop, inDigiMOB

Delia Rickard, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Nathan Boyle, Australian Securities and Investment Commission

Music prior to credits: Mr La Di Da Di by Baker Boy courtesy of Lunatic Entertainment

The inDigiMOB program worked with us on this episode. inDigiMOB is a partnership between First Nations Media Australia and Telstra.

First Nations Media Australia (formerly known as Indigenous Remote Communications Association or IRCA) is the national peak body for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media industry.

Soft sculpture of tin can telephone by Rhonda Sharpe, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists.

Image design by Pam Koger.