The arrest of 55-year-old Kejriwal may have serious repercussions on the poll fortunes of AAP, since he has been at the centre of its plans and strategy for the Lok Sabha elections.
The Singapore Police Force said that e-commerce scams involving concert tickets had claimed at least 1,241 victims since January 2024. The majority of the cases involved Taylor Swift concert tickets.
SPF’s Anti-Scam Centre collaborated with four partnering banks and deployed technology in a joint operation to identify job, fake friend call and e-commerce scam victims.
This MoU was signed by IMDA Chief Executive Lew Chuen Hong and MCMC Chairman Tan Sri Mohamad Salim bin Fateh Din.
Between January 17 and 19, following the alert from the stylist, Vidya Balan learnt that someone had created a fake Instagram profile and a bogus e-mail ID, claiming that it belonged to her.
From January 1 to February 9, 2024, a total of 27 such cases involving hacked PayPal accounts were reported to the police.
These arrests were made following a joint operation conducted between January 31, 2024, and February 6, 2024, by the Commercial Affairs Department, seven Police Land Divisions, Carousell and the Government Technology Agency (GovTech).
A multinational company lost USD 25.6 million after its employees in the Hong Kong branch were scammed.
The gullible victims withdrew huge sums out of their savings and “invested” in Murali Naidu’s wife’s lending business.
The police described these as “China officials impersonation scams” — the scam victims were made to believe by the fraudsters that the victims were talking to officials in China.
