Singapore institutes mandatory caning to punish online scammers

Singapore institutes mandatory caning to punish online scammers

To combat a surge in modern-day online scams, Singapore has turned to a punishment from the past: caning. This past week, Singapore’s Parliament amended...

When a Singapore crypto cop told a single mum she had been scammed of her savings of over $120k

SINGAPORE – Thinking she had found her “lifelong partner”, a single mother sold her flat and transferred the earnings together with her life savings worth over $120,000 into a scammer’s cryptocurrency wallet.Even though they had never met and had not had any video calls together, she still packed up her belongings, withdrew her two children from school and was about...

Singapore Cracks Down on Scammers with Caning Law

Singapore has passed a new law introducing mandatory caning for online scammers, marking its toughest stance yet against rising digital fraud.