One victim even lost about S$676,000 in a job scam. Such scams are occurring more frequently during the pandemic: In the first half of last year, S$6.5 million was lost to job scams, a 16-fold increase from 40 in 2020. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said that for this year, job scams are on the rise, as more people are lured by the convenience of easy jobs promising high commissions. The pandemic has led to an explosion of scammers emerging to target the naive and unaware, disguising the scams in all ways possible – from job scams to bank scams, and even police impersonation scams. There are nations at odds with one another, countries having military coups, and in our own backyard, there are heartless scammers who are on the prowl to cheat innocent victims of their life savings. These days when you turn on the TV or log in online to read the news, it feels like the world is on fire.
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