MORE criminals are targeting victims on cyberspace, with online scams and cyber extortion on the rise, even as Singapore’s crime rate hit a 30-year low.
In the latest annual statistics released by the police yesterday, the crime rate last year was 549 per 100,000 people compared with 584 per 100,000 in 2012, and has been on the downtrend since 2005.
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