SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Victims were cheated of at least S$6.8mil (RM21mil) in about 1,700 reported cases of loan scams between January and November last year.
This is already more than three times the reported amount cheated from victims for the whole of 2018. Loan scam victims were cheated of a total of about S$2mil in some 990 cases in that year.
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