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Abe Maddison

Devastating cost of fraudsters, scammers revealed

Advocates have called on governments to crackdown on scams under a prevention framework. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Sylvia Chou clicked a link on Facebook and three months later, she had lost $2.6 million to scammers.

The advertisement for a currency trading platform was a sophisticated scam that wiped out her savings, and led to her borrowing money and refinancing her three properties.

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