Fraud

F&B scams in Singapore: More fake restaurant websites take bookings, online orders 

[SINGAPORE] More scams have hit the F&B industry this festive season, putting several affected business operators on high alert to minimise damage.

A room set up to imitate a Singapore police station, including fake Singapore police uniforms, inside a compound in O'Smach used for scam operations.

Scammers’ abandoned Cambodia compound exposes brutality and banality of fraud

Abandoned compounds expose scam scripts, target profiles and rooms staged as police stations

Rajput abruptly stepped down from his position at Biofourmis Holdings in August 2023.

Former Biofourmis CEO to be charged over alleged fraud and falsified invoices worth US$16.5 million

BT understands the accused to be the healthcare startup’s founder and former chief executive Kuldeep Singh Rajput

Truong My Lan, who rose from selling make-up and hair accessories to become one of the nation’s most influential property executives, is facing decades behind bars.

Vietnam to sell tycoon Truong My Lan’s yacht and Hermes bags to pay for fraud

Apart from imprisonment, Lan has to pay about US$27 billion in reparations

“Delivery failure” codes were falsely used to avoid financial penalties for under-performance from the client.

SingPost’s 2024 fraud incident allegedly involved e-commerce shipments bound for Canada

Fraudulent practice could have begun some time in 2023 and affected hundreds of parcels

(From left) Brothers Peter, Andrew and Jacob Sever founded Sumsub after learning how traditional verification systems struggled with accuracy, and slowed onboarding and compliance processes.
BRANDED CONTENT

Verify once, use everywhere: How one regtech firm is making identity checks faster for customers and businesses

Global verification and anti-fraud solutions provider Sumsub allows users to store and reuse personal data for multiple verifications securely, and can also be integrated with Singpass

A Chinese court's recent ruling on Wilmar's alleged contract fraud heightens the company's reputational risk, says analyst Nirgunan Tiruchelvam.
BROKERS’ TAKE

Aletheia Capital downgrades Wilmar to ‘sell’, cuts target to S$2.50 on legal woes

China contributes more than half of the agribusiness group’s earnings

Wilmar’s position is that Yunnan Huijia is attempting to implicate Guangzhou Yihai to shift responsibility for the losses.

Wilmar’s China subsidiary lodges appeal over contract fraud case

[SINGAPORE] A subsidiary of Wilmar International has lodged an appeal in a Chinese court, after it was found guilty of contract fraud and ordered to bear losses amounting to 1.88 billion yuan (S$345.6...

Hong Qi Yu is the founder and CEO of AmazingTech, the operating entity behind Tokenize; the claimants argue that he has misled them on various licence statuses.

‘Lost their life savings’: Tokenize Xchange users sue founder and wife for over S$60 million in lost crypto assets

The firm owes its customers about S$266.3 million but has only S$2.6 million in realisable assets, interim judicial manager report reveals