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Singapore to introduce caning for scammers

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November 05, 2025

Singapore plans to punish online scammers with at least six strokes with a cane, a minister told lawmakers on Tuesday, as the city-state doubles down on syndicates following record-high scam losses.

Southeast Asia's second-largest economy lost more than $2.8 billion through scams from 2020 up to the first half of 2025, Sim Ann, Singapore's senior minister of state for home affairs, told parliament.

Around 190,000 cases of scamming had been reported over that time period, she said.

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