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Singapore takes more steps to detect money mules through information sharing, cooling-off measures

The government is also exploring measures to address scams on Telegram, including ‘legislative levers’

Limitations in current laws make it difficult to take money mules to task, Second Minister for Home Affairs Josephine Teo said in Parliament on Monday.

Only 9 of 120 suspected money mules in OCBC phishing scam could be charged; 790 victims lost S$13.7m

There were around 120 money mules suspected of helping scammers in the phishing scams targeting OCBC Bank customers from December 2021 to January 2022.