Scams

More cash, not less digital – expanded cash access does not signal retreat from Singapore’s payments push

The US Treasury Department’s OFAC in October 2025 imposed sanctions on the Prince Group, Chen Zhi and his affiliates in one of the largest financial fraud take-downs in history.

Singapore investigating 2 men linked to Prince Group after US sanctions; $600m in assets seized so far

The regulator found that HSBC failed to maintain adequate controls over its internal transfer systems between May 2023 and May 2024.

HSBC’s Australia unit to pay A$35 million fine over scam protection failures, court rules

Governments across Asia are grappling with an explosion in online fraud, fuelled by sprawling scam networks.

Asia reports sharp rise in cybercrimes and scams: Interpol

Investigators say that many of them had previously worked at scam centres in Cambodia.

Vietnam police bust group planning large-scale online scam centre

Some operators appear to be shifting from large compounds to hotels, apartment buildings and office space that can be rented quickly and abandoned just as fast.

Sri Lanka emerging as a new base for Asia’s scam networks after crackdown in Cambodia

Computers and workstations seized by police during an online scam crackdown at a hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Mar 11.

Cambodia scam centres increase despite crackdown: report

Foreign nationals suspected of running an online gambling operation for two months at an office building were arrested in Jakarta on May 10.

Pig-butchering schemes, honey traps: Telecom-fraud networks target Indonesia as regional crackdowns bite

A report released earlier this month by The Knoble forecast that the World Cup would fuel more than 28,500 suspicious financial transactions globally.

Watchdog warns World Cup ticket prices increase risk of scams