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by Daub 845 days ago
Here in Singapore there was a plague of such cases when China opened up. The main victims were ethnic Chinese Singaporeans being screwed over by long lost family members in China.
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It's only getting worse[1].

There's so many tele-scammers from China nowadays and old Singaporean Chinese are ripe for the pickings. The usual ones I hear over the phone are MOH, IRAS, or SingPost, or some other authority impersonation.

[1]: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/record-scam-cases-singapore-2023-t...