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Andrew Brown

Plague of our time: banks devoting more to scam fight

Australia's major banks say they are beefing-up resources to fight online financial scams. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Online financial scams have become the "plague of our times", banking executives have warned, as major lenders devote more resources to combating them.

A two-day federal parliamentary hearing into Australia's big four banks has been told while financial losses from online scams are largely down, prevention efforts have been ramping up.

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