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Scammers have hijacked three YouTube channels to display bitcoin scams impersonating Elon Musk’s SpaceX channel. So far, these scams have raked in close to $150,000 in bitcoins in two days. For years, scammers have been impersonating Elon Musk and SpaceX to perform cryptocurrency giveaways and other scams promising you significant returns if you send them a little bitcoin. Since
5,425 scam cases, with at least S$60.4 million cheated, were reported from January to April 2020. Of these, 394 were Covid-19 related scams, which managed to cheat at least S$1.4 million. This was Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam’s written answer to Member of Parliament Melvin Yong Yik Chye. Yong, a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, asked
KIDNAP SCAM – Anyone who wishes to submit information pertaining to such cases can call the police hotline or do so online. If you are someone who recently received a text message that claimed to be from someone who had kidnapped one of your loved ones and demanded you transfer over money, you are not
MAPLESTORY SINGAPORE SCAM — Chye Jie He, 28, did not transfer game credits to victims after receiving payment from them. A 28-year-old unemployed man was sentenced to three months’ jail on Friday (April 3) for scamming 11 gamers on MapleStory Singapore, a popular multi-player online role-playing game, of more than S$1,300 by promising them game credits.