Cybersecurity

Tech equipment reseller in SG narrowly avoids losing more than S$100,000 in business email scam

By Jessie Lim
Between January and June, there were 209 cases of BEC scams reported, with S$67.7mil lost, the police said. — The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: A tech equipment reseller company came close to losing more than S$100,000 (RM321,584) worth of laptops to a scam.

The reseller is now trying to find legitimate buyers for the equipment.

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