Personally I think it is both, there has been discussion re QLD police making reference to tactics for undermining confidence in SR, this was made some 6 months ago and now look at the increase in alleged non arrivals and vendors getting an increase in suspected scamming. Whether or not this is true is does make sense and it would be a very effective an non resource intensive way of disrupting sales on SR to AU as it both undermines potential buyers confidence as well as vendors as we are now seeing (Dutch, Italiano etc). We have a journalist posting on these forums (Ozfreelancer) who has commented on this scenario, they have a blog called www.allthingsvice.com which is worth a look. I just hope everyone can approach this issue from a sensible position, AU customs is tight no question but are they tighter than Norway, Sweden, the US etc? I doubt it, I think there is a lot of hype out there which is being used for various ends.