You are still your own best defence against losing money to online scammers, but the volume and sophistication of attacks are only increasing. — The Straits Times/ANN
ONLINE scams are a huge business and have become a full industry with sophisticated supply chains of services, equipment and labour.
Key groups in this sector also have direct connections to nations such as Russia, China and North Korea. What has long seemed to be just a lot of low-level crime has grown into a global, geopolitical problem.
