At Budget 2024, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong had announced an SGD 1.9 billion enhancement to the Assurance Package (AP) to help relieve cost-of-living pressures for Singaporean households.
Aryan Anand had submitted fake and falsified documents to secure admission into Lehigh University, a private research university in Pennsylvania for the 2023-2024 academic year.
The scam victim, a commodity firm based in Singapore, lodged a police report stating that it had fallen prey to a case of business e-mail compromise scam.
AI-enhanced quality in the text of the phishing e-mails increases the risk of targets falling for scams, since these e-mails would not have the usual red flags.
As per reports, the daughter had two tickets, one for herself and another for a friend, but the father devised the plan as he wanted to help her skip the entrance queue and also to keep an eye on his daughter while she attended the event.
Borrowers are being contacted by their licensed moneylenders and being asked to “stay vigilant against possible phishing scams” following the data breach.
The embassy advised Indian nationals intending to visit Cambodia for employment to do so only through authorised agents.
The Financial Sector Technology and Innovation Grant Scheme was introduced by MAS in June 2015; it was designed to support the creation of a vibrant ecosystem for innovation in the Singapore financial sector.
This will better protect them against phishing scams, which were among the top five scam types last year, with at least SGD 14.2 million lost to these scams, as per the Singapore Police Force Annual Scams and Cybercrime Brief 2023.
The 2024 GSTV disbursement will amount to a total of SGD 1.4 billion in GSTV – Cash and GSTV – MediSave, which is around SGD 200 million more than last year.
