Singapore university students’ e-mails compromised; scammers asking for fee payments


FILE PHOTO: Temasek Poly students showing their digital forensic projects in 2011. A recent scam e-mail claimed that the recipient, a student from Temasek Polytechnic, had not paid tuition fees amounting to S$2,850, despite being sent a previous reminder. - ST/ANN

SINGAPORE: Several compromised e-mail addresses of Temasek Polytechnic (TP) students have been used by scammers, with the Ministry of Education (MOE) and institutes of higher learning cautioning parents and students not to respond to e-mails for tuition fee payments.

A TP student, Afiqah, said she received one such scam e-mail on Aug 21 at about 2pm.

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