SINGAPORE — The number of phishing scams in Singapore jumped from 16 cases in 2017 to 5,020 last year, said Minister of State of Home Affairs Desmond Tan in Parliament on Tuesday (15 February).
Overall, there were 23,931 cases of scams reported in 2021, a four-fold jump from 5,147 cases in 2017, Tan added.
Tan was delivering the Ministerial Statement on behalf of the Home Affairs Minister on strengthening enforcement and publication education in the aftermath of the OCBC phishing scam.
A total of $13.7 million was lost in scams involving SMSes impersonating OCBC Bank, and affected 790 customers, which started…
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