Wu Jungang column
The title of this article is the information conveyed by the police statement on December 13.It reflects a phenomenon that is more prominent in today's society: the wind of fraud is flourishing, and there are scammers everywhere. People must beware of being deceived at any time.
Police report reminded the catering industry to be vigilant and be careful to prevent fake VIP scams again.The scammers will pretend to be a customer to book multiple seats from the catering operator, while ordering a large number of new dishes such as expensive wine and seafood.Subsequently, they will claim that they have paid to the catering industry, and even attach a screenshot of fake transfer to deceive the victims to contact the "ingredients supplier" and pay the amount of ingredients.In July this year, the police also issued the same warning.
The older generation may sigh after watching: the world has really changed.Because in their youth, every festival is approaching, the police advised the public to pay attention not to prevent fraud, but to lock the doors and windows when going out to prevent thieves, and to prevent pickpockets in the lively place.Now the thieves and pickpockets have been "overnight", it is difficult to use it, because this is the era when scammers are in the right way. The invention and popularity of the Internet provides vast and boundless rivers and lakes for various scammers.
On December 15th, the police also issued a statement reminding that the fishing fraudulent fishing fraud cases were rolled out during the festival and persuaded the public to be vigilant.The victims of this kind of fraud will generally receive emails or mobile phone text messages, notifying that they are waiting for the package to be delivered, or there is an unpaid bill for processing.If the victim is mistaken, you will click the link provided by the scammer to view "parcel delivery information".As everyone knows, the victim will be transferred to a fraud website, and scammers take the opportunity to ask the victim's credit card and one -time password (OTP).Police said at least 130 people were deceived in the first two weeks of December and lost at least 18,200 yuan.
If you think these are just a little trouble, then look at some big cases.The FTX case should be the largest fraud case this year.Although the suspect is an American, the case affects many Singapore's retail investors and institutional investors, including Temasek Holdings.The founder of this cryptocurrency trading platform, Sam Bankman-Fric, 30 has been arrested in Bahamas a few days ago.The U.S. prosecutors are trying to extradite him back to China.
Fried will face eight crimes, including long -range fraud, co -scamming and money laundering.The Federal Prosecutor of New York Southern District, William, described it as "one of the largest financial fraud cases in American history."If all eight crimes are established, Fried may face 115 years of imprisonment.However, investors' money seems to be paid to the east.Temasek canceled all the investment of more than 200 million yuan.Huang Xuncai, the Vice Premier and Minister of Finance, recently responded to the Congress's inquiry about the case in the case that the case not only caused the Temasek Mongolia to suffer, but also hurt Singapore's international reputation.
FTX suddenly announced its breaking production in November, and it is estimated that the encrypted wallets of more than 1 million FTX users worldwide are locked, of which there are also well -known individuals and institutions in the world.A few months before that, the company's valuation was US $ 32 billion (about S $ 43.2 billion).But how much investors have lost their money, and no one can say clearly now.Fortune Forbes estimated a year ago that Fried individual's net assets reached $ 26.5 billion. This year, he also commented that he was the world's richest "post -90s" currency circle legend.
Is Qian really so easy to cheat?Maybe a local example.On the 9th of this month, the national court tried a fraud case.Former chief financial officer Lin Minjin (transliteration, 62 years old), the former chief financial officer of Agritrade International, and pleaded guilty to 12 deceptions and prosecuted.The trial will be opened on the 17th of next month.
It is worth noting that the main controller asked the judge to severely punish the defendant a few words.He said that the loss caused by the case in this case has not been seen before, and the number is huge, and it has also defiled the reputation of Singapore.This is indeed very reasonable, because Singapore is a financial center, and the defendant's fraud is banks and financial institutions, including well -known banks in Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan and other places, with a total amount of 469 million US dollars.This amount is almost equivalent to the total of 633.3 million yuan in the loss of all the victims of all scams in Singapore in 2021.
The above two cases can be described as unique.The former was that our investment institutions were deceived by outsiders, and the latter was that our citizens cheated foreign banks, but they all broke the reputation of Singapore.It can be seen that we cannot wait to look at the increasingly increasing various fraud cases, otherwise the reputation such as good law and order and strict law will eventually be dusty.
Faced with the increasingly prosperous domestic and foreign environment, we need to seek more effective countermeasures, and we must also try to prevent the increasingly corruption of social atmosphere.This is exactly the original intention of the author to publish the style of correction of social mutual trust in this column on January 26 this year.
The Chinese circle "kill piglet" can be called the crown beast
In our traditional values, deceit is shameless behavior.However, there must be no word "shame" in the scammers' dictionary.Confucius said that the shame is almost brave, but looking at this world today, we know that the status of shame in the minds of ordinary people is getting worse.Even an ordinary grandma dare to deceive people with Lee Kuan Yew's name, not only shameless, but also bold, not to mention those white -collar criminals with more intelligent and compact and machine -hearted.If such crooked winds do not quickly try to curb, the consequences can be attentive.Needless to say that the role of moral norms is becoming weaker, and it is probably not necessary to say that the existing law will also completely lose its original deterrent and obstacles.
In recent years, the so -called "killing pig disk" has appeared in the world of the world.The process is "pig feed". The process of chatting or false love is called "pig raising". In the end, it was successfully fraudulent money (some victims were not strange), and called "kill pigs".Many women who are eager to love and make friends online are killed by pigs.This kind of scammers treat women as pigs, and they are complacent after they succeed. They are not only shameless, but also brutal.
The increasing fraud case has increased, and in the past few years, it has occupied the first challenge of local crimes. The police also set up a anti -fraud headquarters in March this year.According to data published by the police, the losses caused by all fraud in the first half of this year reached 346.5 million yuan, which has exceeded half of the total loss in 2021.
In a society and world that is ubiquitous and timeless, people have to prevent fraud every day, prevent fraud at all times, and live with peace of mind?What is even more worrying is that the scammers are rampant and everyone is in danger. It is bound to set up defense everywhere. Over time, the original interpersonal mutual trust of our society is natural.This issue should be worthy of our in -depth discussion.
The author is a former journalist, a former member of the Congress
The above two cases can be described as unique.The former was that our investment institutions were deceived by outsiders, and the latter was that our citizens cheated foreign banks, but they all broke the reputation of Singapore.In the face of the increasingly prosperous domestic and foreign environment, we really need to seek more effective countermeasures, and we must also try to prevent the increasingly corruption of social atmosphere.
