Why are scammers active in Singapore
May 25th, 2023 | 
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I received several scam calls each week, sometimes several a day.
These calls were purported to come from ICA office, or from a bank, and asked me to press a button and talk to a person.
I ignored these calls, but they are disturbing. I often had to answer the calls, in case they were genuine calls and the message was important.
After some time, I would be ignoring all incoming calls, including genuine calls.
I suspect that the scam calls are happening more in Singapore, than elsewhere. I do not have the actual evidence to prove my suspicion, so this is just a hunch.
If I am right, the next question is – why is Singapore getting so many scam calls?
Here, I think that I know the answer.
It probably arose from a strategic mistake made by some security experts in the Ministry of Finance or the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
These experts stated that it is dangerous for business and government organizations to send e-mails to their customers, as the emails are not secure. They encouraged the practice for these organizations to store their replies or regular communications in their servers, and asked the customers to login to the websites to retrieve the replies.
It is not practical for the customers to be logging in to several dozen websites to retrieve their answers. They do not do so.
These organizations send emails to their customers to tell them that they have messages to be read. They provide the link to these websites.
The scammers found a loophole. They send fake messages from these organizations and a fake website to capture the login credentials.
This is the root of the problem, i.e. the practice for organizations to store their replies in their websites.
To solve the scams, we have to get rid of the root of the problem, namely to stop organizations from asking customers to get replies from their platforms. This is a bad practice and should be stopped.
Tan Kin Lian
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So many goons here of course there is a big market for scammers to make money…….
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When scammers watch how sgs get $cammed for decades by their gahmen,these scammers know what to do.
Cant blame them,blame daft sinkies.
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@xoxo
Superb observation there!
If someone can be so easily hoodwinked, it would be a waste not to scam them. lol
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Majority of these scam call are from CCP land (Taiwan included) with some in Philippine, Indonesia and Cambodia.
You got money you can set up shop anywhere or even buy over reporter.
AP reporter Matt Lee bought over by CCP:
Why US can sanction China but China Cannot sanction US?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxrFKOwfCLU
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https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-internet-scamming-countries-in-the-world-in-2023/
India
India has a large population of internet users, and unfortunately, many of them have turned to internet scamming as a means of making money. The most common form of internet scam in India is the tech support scam. This type of scam involves scammers pretending to be tech support representatives and convincing victims to pay for unnecessary software or services.
If Modi does not protest, then it must be true.
United States
The United States may come as a surprise to some, but the country has been linked to internet scamming. The country has a large population of tech-savvy individuals, and unfortunately, some of them have turned to internet scamming as a means of making quick money. The most common forms of internet scamming in the United States include phishing, identity theft, and investment scams.
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Textbook Tan does not seem to have called id on his phone or he would know that anything with a +65 is a scam call. I also have been getting scam calls every other week supposedly from USA (+1) or Australia (+61). I just do the common sense thing and reject the call since I have no one that I know who is abroad who would call me.
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The biggest scammers are running this tiny island. So even if other scammers try they only manage to eat kachang puteh. Remember that ordinary scammers are also foreign talent and we should welcome more such people to make $inkieland the Scam Hub of Asia.
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Need to address the scam root problem.
No point asking the consumers to be careful…it will only get worse. Many people will still get scam this way.
Make Companies co responsible for the loss and they will make sure enough effort will be done to reduce their risks. They are in a better position to so something.
For those scammers ,make sure the boss (who are usually oversea )are caught and punish so heavily that they will never think of scamming again.
Shame them …
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If you remember correctly, a few FTs sold our information from SingTel etc and got caught. Credit card companies also reselling our information. Many employees who have access are also selling our info.
Last year, the blue conducted an operation and found more than 100+ scammers are actually residing in Singapore!
Who approved their passes?
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Either Singaporeans are extremely gullible or the incumbent party had their hands full dealing with private property rental/ownership issues in Parliament.
It’s probably both.
The above situation is worse than foreign scammers.
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”” Lawrence Wong announces he will take over as Sg PM either “before or after” the next general election!!!”’
””Mas Selamat is either in Singapore or NOT”’Wong Kan Seng
Why all the Wongs talk like there.
Because 61% of sinkies are idiots.
You get what you vote vote.
Papigs words are for idiots.
Scammers thrive in Sinkieland because 61% of the pop. are brainwashed idiots.
Lawrence Wong need to show to Sinkies that he has backbone.
Pinkie said hw will step down when he reached 70.
He is past 70.
Lawrence–show your backbone, or else you will be the second one with no runway.
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So how did the scammers get the data?
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your uncle colleague selling fake copy watches at clementi central
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In China, most of the scammers BUY the phone numbers from the telecom staff. To weed out these crooks, China has enacted a law that makes ANYONE selling such information liable for detention and jail.
For someone who shares/sell less than 50 numbers, max 14 days detention (拘留), for those above 50, it is a criminal offense and can be sentenced to a maximum of 3 years imprisonment and/or fined HEAVILLY (normally 10 or 20 times the amount they make).
Maybe Sinkieland should come up with such a law?
@No Runway Lawrence
A perfect example of “got say like no say”, LPPL. You are so correct to reference the Mas Selamat fiasco of “he is either inside or outside Sinkieland”.
He might as well say “I will become the PM someday”. lol
I think its time to sack the gahment script-writer and chief apologist/hoodwinker.
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Why the OpeningOdds.com website shut down for good,is it ? Has it become a scam website that needs to be shut down ?
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General Election for ex-Generals.
What a bummer.
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Because Singaporeans are known to be bilingual, so we receive scam calls from India (in English) and PRC (in Mandarin).
Globally, it is usually a scam call from India (in English) trying to scam someone in USA.
PRC scam calls tend to focus on Mandarin-speaking countries.
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@Observer
You are not wrong.
On the same note, it is common knowledge that most Sinkies are easily hoodwinked, so if I am a scammer, I would also want to target them, right?
They are already constantly being ‘scammed’ by the party, the scammers are merely joining the queue and taking a small piece of the cake. If the scammers don’t take their money, the party will anyway. lol
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Mafia Big Brother is scamming the world, running out of money leading the axis of evil, stooge little brother of course must help by milking the fools.
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The FTs they hire in Singapore in job positions like admin and customer service in many MNCs and glcs have been selling Singaporean personal info on the dark web. No surprise here. All these scams started when Singapore adopted web 2.0 e-commerce post 2010 and it also coincided with the open leg ft policy around the same time FTs started to dominate tech fields and jobs in Singapore .
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