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S’pore fraud victim now puts scammers out of business

Instead of wallowing in depression after losing $80,000, the 34-year-old digital content creator turned her agony into strength.

Border patrol police on the hunt for human traffickers in Tak province after they stumbled across two rare fishing-cat kittens on Sunday.

The UN Panel of Experts has pointed to stolen crypto as the source of illicit financing for North Korea‘s ballistic missile programs.

Police seized three leopard cat’s kitten, one tiger hide, hides of three clouded leopards and hides of two leopards.

The sum lost is almost 2.5 times the $268.4 million stolen by scammers the previous year.

The costs include a quarter of a million US dollars for Leonardo DiCaprio, a US$385,773 bar tab, US$5,000 for "model wrangling".

The loggers allegedly paid between 200,000-250,000 riel ($50-$60) to forest authorities to be allowed to remove the logs.

Using information submitted while making purchases, scammers could transfer money from victim accounts, police said.

Those arrested include three doctors, three nurses, 11 members of the public, seven agents and a clinic employee.

Such scams are elaborately designed to induce victims' sense of urgency to respond, says a psychologist.