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Be it violence on streets, ill-treatment of domestic workers, online scams, start-up frauds, drug-related activities, physical harassment of young ladies, Singapore has witnessed an unprecedented amount of crimes in the past few months. According to a survey published by Channel News Asia, there were 46,196 reported cases in 2021, about …

Scamming is becoming a norm these days. We had MOH, SPF, and now there's even one posing as the English royal family!

They are paid so much to do their jobs yet they fail us time and time again. Why do we give them high salaries when they can't even protect Singaporeans?

How can someone like him be given citizenship? His friends said he had a habit of gambling and even had debts. Why do we let a foreigner like him enjoy our privileges and then cheat us of all our money?

New tactic being used by scammers beware! These scammers take the pictures and information of real property agents and pretend to list houses for rent. After they convince you to pay deposit they will go awol. One netter was unfortunate enough to have to go through this. He found a …

Despite the recent warnings given by MAS after OCBC clients lost their money to phishing scams, DBS/POSB accounts are still getting robbed. Several users from both banks have seen unauthorized charges or withdrawals made to their accounts even though they had not clicked on suspicious links and kept their one-time …

Another case of a hair salon trying to cheat unsuspecting elderlies. This time it is a hair salon in Yishun, Yan Beauty Salon (BLK 717 YISHUN ST 71 #01-321). 61-year-old uncle wanted to get a simple haircut and to dye his hair. Instead he was charged $1,771 for 13 SESSIONS …

Temasek’s General Counsel, Pek Siok Lan, was cheated of S$5.5 million in a fraudulent nickel trading scam. What happened, was that the scammer, Ng Yu Zhi, promised his investors a guaranteed return of 15% over a three-month period. One look and you can tell this is a crazy amount, given …

Fake degrees, fake national songs, and now even fake oxygen tanks! It was reported that scammers in Delhi are selling fake oxygen tanks to the vulnerable in their country! “These people were producing fake vials which cost them about 20 rupees and (they) sold it in the market for anything …

On 25 May 2021, food delivery rider John Koh was looking for an investment loan of $25k, and he decided to Google for any licensed money lender around. He was directed to a website “galaxyfinances.net”. John decided to contact the number on the webpage “81918410”. “A man named Donald who …