Tag: Scam
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Singapore to table law reinforcing deterrent sentences for scam offenders, including youths: Shanmugam
A High Court ruling in September had given several young money mule offenders probation and community sentences. “This is not the time to go soft,” says Senior Minister K Shanmugam.
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Inside the world of ‘Yahoo boys:’ Africa’s scam industry
West Africa now accounts for 30% of all cybercrimes in Africa, costing victims billions globally. We explore the world of internet fraudsters known in Nigeria as “Yahoo boys” and in Ghana as “Sakawa Boys.”
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Scams, illegal businesses pose new setback for Johor’s Forest City revival
Forest City is courting investors and trying to shed its “ghost town” label, but recent controversies are testing efforts to revive the development and its property market.
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Cambodia to target scam ‘masterminds’ as critics question crackdown’s effectiveness
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is gathering evidence against suspected “masterminds” of massive cyber fraud operations, the country’s anti-scam minister said, amid criticism that the government’s crackdown has failed to reach those ultimately responsible.Legal action, “whether it involves the mastermind, the co-consp
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Scam factories and human trafficking
A new trafficking route feeds on African ambition, carrying victims from Kenya and Uganda to Northern Cyprus and the battlefields of Ukraine, where fake agents replace promised futures with coercion, debt and force.
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Cambodia no ‘safe haven’ for scams, prime minister tells anti-fraud summit
Cambodia is seeking to showcase its crackdown on an industry where trafficking victims have been forced to carry out online fraud.
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Malaysian man arrested for allegedly masterminding scam, money laundering operations in Singapore
The 27-year-old man, nicknamed “Da Xiang”, allegedly recruited Malaysians to carry out government official impersonation scams in Singapore.
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Cambodia showcases scams crackdown with global conference
Around 20 countries, including the US and China, will be represented at the meeting.
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Man drove around Singapore with ‘SMS blaster’ that sent more than 10,000 phishing messages, gets jail
When he visited his sister while the device was in his car, he warned her about phishing messages targeting WhatsApp users.
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Philippines shuts down forced labor in cyberfraud compounds
Thousands are being lured to the Philippines with false promises of jobs, only to be forced into working as online scammers. Workers freed in police raids are then stuck in internment camps waiting to be repatriated.
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