With scammers riding roughshod on its network, Telstra teams with banks to catch mules

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Technology Reporter
18 Mar, 2026
Telstra just announced it's teaming up with ANZ, NAB and Westpac to hunt money mules – people who shuffle stolen cash through their bank accounts on behalf of criminal networks. But why can’t the telco block dodgy callers and messages riding the network in the first place, like Samsung does?
With scammers riding roughshod on its network, Telstra teams with banks to catch mules

Telstra just announced it's teaming up with ANZ, NAB and Westpac to hunt money mules – people who shuffle stolen cash through their bank accounts on behalf of criminal networks. But why can’t the telco block dodgy callers and messages riding the network in the first place, like Samsung does?

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