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February 8, 2023
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): In 2020, there were no reported fake friend call scams.
February 8, 2023
Singapore News - In 2020, there were no reported fake friend call scams. But in 2021, there were 686 such cases, and this figure jumped 207 per cent to 2,106 cases in 2022. The police revealed on Wednesday in its annual scams and cybercrime press conference that the fake friend... Read more at www.tnp.sg
September 6, 2022
Singapore News - A small group of employees from six leading banks in Singapore now operate from the police’s new Anti-Scam Command office to help the police tackle scam incidents efficiently. These employees from DBS Bank, OCBC, UOB, Standard Chartered, HSBC and CIMB have been helping to... Read more at www.tnp.sg
April 26, 2022
Singapore News - More than $200 million has been recovered by the Anti-Scam Centre, with the police now targeting scammers even before people realise they have fallen prey and make a report. At the Police Workplan Seminar on Tuesday (April 26), it was revealed that as at last month, the... Read more at www.tnp.sg
February 25, 2022
Recently, OCBC had to deal with many of their customers being targeted by SMS phishing scams. Unfortunately, cases such as these are becoming the norm
February 20, 2022
Singapore News - When Grace (not her real name), 34, met a German man on dating app Tinder last February, she found him fun, intelligent and always willing to listen to her. Within six months, he had moved in with her and proposed, and she said "yes". He asked Grace, a... Read more at www.tnp.sg
February 19, 2022
The guilt and shame victims feel after they have been scammed continues long after the incident, says a psychologist. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
January 31, 2022
Singapore News - The recent phishing saga involving customers of OCBC Bank has thrown light on the epidemic of scams in Singapore, where victims have lost more than $965 million in just over 5½ years, checks by The Straits Times showed. Scammers pocketed a record high of $268.4 million in... Read more at www.tnp.sg
January 30, 2022
The recent phishing saga involving customers of OCBC Bank has highlighted the epidemic of scams in Singapore, where victims have lost more than S$965mil (RM2.9bil) in just over 5½ years, checks by The Straits Times showed.
January 30, 2022
Police arrested and investigated more than 7,000 scammers and money mules last year. . Read more at straitstimes.com.