The majority of people who were scammed between January and June this year – 74.2 per cent – were youths, young adults and adults under the age of 50, the police said.
SINGAPORE: More people are falling victim to scams on Telegram, with a 137.5 per cent increase in cases in the first half of this year, the police said on Thursday .
Overall, scam cases in Singapore between January and June rose 16.3 per cent compared with the same period last year. A total of 26,587 cases were reported, with at least S$385.6 million lost – a 24.6 per cent increase. Meanwhile, fake friend call scam cases fell 38.2 per cent to 2,368 in the first half of 2024. The amount lost also dropped by 37.2 per cent to about S$8.1 million.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Aileen Yap, assistant director of the police’s Anti-Scam Command, said the number of malware-enabled scam cases and the amount lost to them have “decreased significantly”. This is crucial as most online scams are perpetrated by scammers based outside Singapore, so such cases are difficult to investigate and prosecute, they said.
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