Raise the awareness of some of these scams among our FIS Community
In recent years, scam cases have continued to rise as scammers find various ways to dupe unsuspecting victims out of their hard-earned money. E-commerce scams, social media impersonation scams and loan scams were the top three scam types reported to the Police in the first three months of 2020.
In 2019, Singapore Police Force set up the Anti-Scam Centre (ASC) under the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) which focusses on disrupting scammers’ operations and mitigating victims’ monetary losses through close collaboration with financial institutions, telecommunication companies and digital platform owners.
Continual island-wide enforcement actions and close collaboration with foreign law enforcement counterparts were also ramped up over time. Apart from these enforcements, the SPF has also continued to increase public education and engagement efforts with stakeholders, such as convenience stores, remittance agencies and banks, to raise awareness of scams.
We had the pleasure of inviting Senior Sergeant Afiq from the Orchard Neighbourhood Police Center over to raise the awareness of some of these scams among our FIS Community.