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Who is sleeping on the job as online financial fraudsters operate freely?

On a December morning in 2007, Kenyans woke up to one of the country’s biggest financial scandals. Hundreds of thousands of people had lost an estimated Sh8 billion to at least 271 pyramid schemes that collapsed almost simultaneously.

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