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We are a fellowship of scam, fraud and cyber-enabled crime survivors who share experiences and work towards:
We believe the globalised scamming industry is a scourge that must be stopped to protect people, communities and financial systems.
Scam Victim Alliance is a subsidiary of Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), connecting survivor-led support and advocacy with a global network working to disrupt scams at scale.
Read our policy submissionsHarriet Spring campaigns for better banking, recovery and support for scam victims
Offenders impersonating ING stole $1.6m in a single transfer from the sale of Harriet’s elderly mother’s home Teachers Mutual Bank in 2024. She believes she was targeted after her mother’s house was sold.
It began with a Facebook ad and descended into a complex fraud that financial firms are still pursuing Sylvia in court over. A regulator later banned the investment company, but it was too late to protect her. The company that took her payments shut down and re-opened through a new entity with payment apps.
TRIGGER WARNING: talk of suicide. Sylvia Chou is a registered tax agent and CPA who was accused by her banks of being a scammer while trying to uncover how she’d been deceived by a sophisticated investment scam.
Cathy Brennan works every day talking to romance scam survivors to support them to heal and understand the scale of the global crime devastating thousands around the world.
Cathy recovered all her money after her local politician and bank rallied to help her. She now supports romance fraud victims all over the southern hemisphere through her work running Scam Haters United AUS/NZ.
David Sweeney’s father lost money to a binary options investment fraud. Through David’s dogged research and determination, he found evidence that helped recover money for his father.
David Sweeney is working on new digital resources to help scam victims and other people affected by binary options fraud.
David has been representing consumers and their interests for over 40 years. Early in his career, David held senior legal positions with the Victorian Ministry of Consumer Affairs where he was involved in legislative reform, including development and implementation of the Credit Act 1984, Chattel Securities Act 1997, Motor Car Traders Act 1986 and EFT Code of Conduct.
He also ran multi-million dollar civil penalty cases against major banks and financiers.
He then took up the position of Director of Consumer Credit Legal Service (Victoria) where he ran test case litigation and established Credit Helpline.
As Senior Consultant at Maurice Blackburn Cashman he successfully ran a series of consumer and shareholder class actions including the Aristocrat and Multiplex class actions – at the time the two largest local damages awards in consumer class actions.
This was followed by his appointment as Legal counsel at the a financial ombudsman service and as senior solicitor at Consumer Action Law Centre.
He is now semi-retired and operates a small consumer focused law practice where he recently successfully acted for HSBC scam victims
David has also held a variety of appointments on Boards and Committees including Chair of the AFCRAA, the financial counselling peak organisation, and Chair of the National Investment Centre for Retirement Investments.
He is also the author of various publications including the Credit Handbook.