[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Although friends and family members have warned scam victims about the dangers of trusting complete strangers, their advice has often gone unheeded. This is because victims have an unmet emotional need the scammer can fill and there is a limit to how much well-meaning loved ones can intervene in the private lives...Read More

[ad_1] While economies the world over suffered, slowed, and effectively stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fraud economy flourished. Experts estimated that the annual global cost of fraud in 2020 would total just over $5 trillion USD—that’s more than the gross domestic product of most countries. But those were pre-pandemic estimates, derived under pre-pandemic...Read More