Daylight Robbery

We lift the lid on the hi tech heists stealing billions from unsuspecting Australians, targeted for their valuable real estate and savings. Daylight Robbery explores the raft of digital bank robberies happening across Australian banks. We interview investigators, victims and finance experts to explain how shady scam syndicates operate across borders to commit digital bank robbery at an industrial scale. We lift the lid on the complex web of legitimate companies using sock puppets, tech-savvy mules and artful forgeries to financially ruin Australians and take their hard-earned money offshore to be used to fund war, human trafficking, sex crimes and worse.

Australia is under siege from digital bank robbery, a crime where the getaway car is nearly always a mule bank account. Organised crime syndicates operate shadow call centres from South East Asian countries but come from Britain, Russia, China and Israel and target first home buyers, retirees, and anyone needing to do a large bank transfer. They steal billions from Australians every year.

This bloodless true crime story investigates how the violent armed bank robberies Australia dealt with in the 1970s and 1980s have morphed into the most profitable crime on earth through digital bank robberies. We talk to Australian first home buyers battling the second most expensive real estate prices on the planet who are losing tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital bank robberies raising funds for organised crime gangs overseas. Investigators Ken Gamble and Dan Halpin explain how international crime gangs target Australians in hi tech heists that raise millions at a time, exploiting loopholes in our local laws. These investigators say Australians are being targeted for their property, savings and superannuation wealth, while other countries crack down, making us softer targets.