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He received a message on Facebook Messenger from a close friend asking to borrow some money.
He sought out an ATM immediately and made the transfer.
“The scammer asked for more, but all I had at the time was $2,000, so I transferred all of it,” said Marcus (not his real name), 28, who works in the finance industry.
Minutes after the transfer, he felt something was fishy when his “friend” insisted on having the receipt for the transaction sent via Facebook rather than WhatsApp.
It turned out that his friend’s Facebook account had been hacked.
Despite immediately making a police report, he never recovered the money.
Marcus is just one of the increasing number of victims of online scams.
To better fight the scourge, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will set up an inter-ministry committee on scams.
It will bring together representatives from the MHA, Ministry of Communications and Information, and Ministry of Trade and Industry, among others, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs Sun Xueling announced during the debate on her Ministry’s budget yesterday.
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