Aussie scam victim confronts the alleged scammer who conned $250,000

An Australian woman who lost over $250,000 to a sophisticated scam using David Koch's face to lure victims has confronted the man who allegedly orchestrated the fraud, labelling him 'scum'. 

Alison Smyth, from Adelaide, admitted that she thought about ending her life after shameless fraudsters took advantage of her desire to make more money so she could move her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's, KetoXplode Erfahrung into a nursing home.

She stumbled across a link on social media using former Sunrise host David 'Kochie' Koch's face to promote a cryptocurrency investment platform. 

Ms Smyth claimed she was groomed and encouraged to make investments, only realising it was a scam after she had been cleared of her life savings. 

She's among more than 600,000 Aussies who have lost a combined $2.7b in the last year.

'I was totally mortified and I thought of suicide,' she told Channel Seven's Spotlight.









Alison Smyth (pictured), from Adelaide, thought about ending her life after alleged fraudsters took advantage of her desire to make more money so she could move her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's, into a nursing home