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Scammers are now impersonating online payment system PayPal to gain access to and steal money from bank accounts, with at least four victims having fallen prey to the scheme, the Singapore Police ...
The Singapore Police has taken action against transnational crime syndicates on its own or in combined operations with the Royal Malaysia Police: Thirteen transnational scam syndicates with the arrest of more than seventy persons (2022). [61] Home rental scams that incurred $1.3 million losses from 480 victims (2023). [63]
August 30, 2024 at 9:35 AM. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's home ministry said on Friday that it will introduce a law in coming months to grant police the power to temporarily restrict the ...
15 August 2023-The 10 accused in this case are arrested. Assets worth over 1 billion Singapore Dollars were either seized, frozen or issued prohibition of disposal orders, including vehicles, Bearbricks, properties, luxury items, grand pianos, liquor and wine. [1][9] 16 August 2023-The 10 accused in this case are charged in court. [4]
Ng Yu Zhi. Ng Yu Zhi (born c. 1987), [1] also known as Ng You Zhi, [2][3] is a Singaporean alleged fraudster. The former director of Envy Global Trading, he was charged in March 2021 with running the largest Ponzi scheme [1] in the history of Singapore, worth about S$ 1.5 billion.
Scams these days go beyond Nigerian Princes.This article, Crime rate in Singapore rises ever-so-slightly, but mostly because of scam cases, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading ...
МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.
An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [1][2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...