More than 50 people in S’pore duped by scammers through Telegram this year

Scammers’ modus operandi includes the use of the compromised account of a contact known to victims. — TNS

SINGAPORE: Some 50 people have lost at least S$18,000 (RM61,794) in total in 2023 after falling prey to impersonation scams on the Telegram messaging app.

The scammers would hijack their victims’ Telegram accounts by tricking them into providing their mobile phone numbers and Telegram-generated login codes, said the police and Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) in a joint statement on Thursday.