Join Gobbill’s CEO Shendon Ewans as he presents Gobbill at CA Catalyst’s Emerging Technology pitch night series.

CA Catalyst sources leading edge technologies from their ecosystem of strategic fintech hub partners that could transform your business.  

You will hear from the entrepreneurs behind the emerging technology and get a first hand experience of a virtual Shark Tank-style pitch event. 

If you’re keen to find out what startups are new in the innovation ecosystem and ask them questions about their journey, then this is for you. So, sit back, relax and watch these fantastic founders put it all on the table. 

Live Webinar | Thursday, 14 October 

2:00pm – 3:00pm | Perth, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore
3:30 – 4:30pm | Darwin
4:30 – 5:30pm | Adelaide
4:00pm – 5:00pm | Brisbane
5:00pm – 6:00pm | Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart
7:00 – 8:00pm | New Zealand

Register here

Want to save hundreds of dollars each year on everyday bills?

If you haven’t compared how much you are paying for bills such as electricity or insurance for a few years, it is time to start saving some money.

Gobbill’s CEO, Shendon Ewans says that Covid has changed many factors which means you could be saving more money on certain deals. He recently went on an independent energy comparison website and saved $680 per annum on his energy bill.

Compare and switch providers by using independent comparison websites.

Example for energy:

Victoria https://compare.energy.vic.gov.au/ In Vic, there is an additional $250 bonus for Pensioner Concession Card holders and some Health Care Card holders (including JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, Austudy and Abstudy recipients) – limited time.

Australia excluding VIC https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/

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You can use Gobbill to track and pay all your household bills. Sign up for FREE at https://gobbill.com

Andrea Hammond wanted to buy a Tesla 3 electric vehicle for good reasons but hackers intercepted Tesla’s company invoices and changed the bank details. Andrea together with another Tesla customer have collectively lost more than $130,000 after receiving fraudulent Tesla invoices. It is not clear at what point in the chain the emails with payment details were hacked.

Both customers are calling for Tesla to offer more secure payment options and for banks to improve checks on transactions.

Gobbill CEO Shendon Ewans said “Payment redirection fraud has been growing exponentially with more victims like Andrea being hit by scammers.” Mr. Ewans and co-founder Quentin Marsh started Gobbill as secure bill payments for family and friends which has grown to become a scale-up company over 5 years. Gobbill which is an Australian FinTech / Cyber Security company which has invested millions in research and development to protect business owners and individuals from scams and fraud.

Find out more about how Gobbill can protect you from payment fraud. https://gobbill.com

Source and photo from ABC News. Read more about the Tesla scam at ABC News

The pandemic has significantly changed our lives in different ways. Many small businesses and households have endured severe hardships and there is possibly more to come.

Melbourne’s Stage 4 lockdown was particularly difficult for the Gobbill team however, the business has ended the year of Covid in a strong position.

Our performance in the last six months has now exceeded pre-Covid payment processing levels and seen a systematic increase in our monthly recurring revenue by 2,300% in the last 12 months.

Since our inception in 2015, we have now connected and verified over 1,000 Australian billers and data sources.

We also acknowledge our partnership with Chinese payment provider AirPay FinTech (awarded ‘best partnership’ finalist in the Australia FinTech awards) and digital currency payments with Cointree.

The team at Gobbill is humbled to be named in the top 5 payment players disrupting the industry in Australia by IBS Intelligence along with Novatti.

A Sydney hedge fund has collapsed after a cyber attack triggered by a fake Zoom invitation saw its trustee and administrator mistakenly approve $8.7 million in fraudulent invoices.

NSW police are investigating the matter as digital crime experts report a spike in attacks on hedge funds and private equity firms this year, as informal checks were weakened due to staff working at home as a result of the pandemic.

The Australian Financial Review has been told of another fund which lost $25 million in client money from a similar cyber attack, while the trustee for another firm blocked a $1.8 million transfer after the fake invoice was spotted.

Read more at The Australian Financial Review

Source: The Herald Scotland 15 Oct 2020, Victoria Masterson

Picture: Michael Pollitt (left – UK Business Development Manager ) and Shendon Ewans (right – Chief Executive ) at Royal Bank of Scotland head office Gogarburn. Photo by Stewart Attwood

AN AUSTRALIAN fintech company hopes to raise £2 million to fund a UK roll-out after pitching to more than 200 investors in Scotland.

Melbourne-based Gobbill was one of 50 companies pitching yesterday for amounts of between £250,000 and £5 million at the virtual technology investor showcase, Engage Invest Exploit 2020.

Almost 1,000 attendees were registered for the event, around a quarter of them investors from Scotland, the rest of the UK, Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

Mr Ewans said Gobbill had increased its monthly recurring revenue in Australia by more than 2,000% in the nine months since January 2020 and was looking to launch in the UK because it had the world’s second highest incidence of fraud and scams after America.

“Payment fraud and scams have grown seven fold in the UK over the last three years,” he said. “But since COVID hit, in the month of March alone it grew something like 400%.”

In March this year, Gobbill was accepted into the NatWest and Royal Bank FinTech Accelerator, which operates from locations across the UK. The company chose to be based out of the network’s Accelerator Hub in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, but has yet to move in because of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Read more The Herald Scotland

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Welcome to the National Scams Awareness Week 2020! 

(Australia and New Zealand)

Gobbill has been a strong supporter in protecting people from against fraud and scams since 2015. We are proud to be a campaign partner for this year’s National Scams Awareness Week. 

Throughout this week, we will be raising awareness of scams and frauds. We will focus on Phishing and Email Compromise. These are two areas of scams that Gobbill has extensive experience in confronting.  

To kick off the week, we have posted a quiz titled ‘Can you spot a scam?’ on our Instagram page.

If you are here to read the explanations, please keep reading.

If you have not done the quiz, hop off this page and come back to this page for the explanations. 

1. Optus – This is a real email bill from Optus. Optus does send from cloudmails.net and they do personalised the email to the account holder.   
2. ANZ –This is a Scam. The sender anzhost.org is fake and the email is not personalised. 
3. DocuSign – This is a Scam. An email from DocuSign will have the sender’s email and details above the general text. Tricky one!   
4. Xero – This is a real email and invoice. The email is from the correct sender and the email is correctly personalised to the recipient.  As a scammer, this would be one of the easiest to use; to change the link or attachment and have something quite malicious for the victim.

How did you go? Scam emails or texts can look extremely authentic and convincing through replicating legitimate messages from trusted senders. 

These scams often feature official looking logos and emails and a ‘call to action’ to open a malicious link or share personal information. That’s why Gobbill has developed automated checks of domains, links and much more over the last 5 years. Gobbill fetches and/or opens attachments safely so you don’t have to.  

We do this for all Australian billers including telcos, councils, utilities and many more. 

We process payments to over 40,000 billers with over 1m+ Australians already having access to Gobbill’s payment platform.

For more information, contact us at: https://gobbill.com/contact/ 

In the midst of “Business As Unusual” Gobbill is growing.

Gobbill has been helping households and small businesses across Australia since 2015 and is celebrating its 5th birthday next month.

In these uncertain and unusual times, the company is currently positioned to grow in 2020/21 and we’re excited to keep growing our customer base, product features and team.

Thank you to all our loyal customers, partners, staff and shareholders.