SINGAPORE - The number of cases of people scammed by impersonators on social media has jumped by more than nine times in the past three years, with many victims - six in 10 - aged in their 20s to 40s.Furthermore, the amount cheated ballooned by nearly 43 times, from at least $168,000 to about $7.2 million over the same period.
The trend of young people being scammed by impersonators also bears out in findings for other scams which Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam revealed in a written parliamentary reply on Monday . In tech support scams, the crooks usually pretend to be staff from telcommunications companies or law enforcement officers, who deceive victims into installing malicious software onto their computers.
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