16 Thai banks collaborate on app-based alert system to combat scam tsunami
The new collaboration is led by the Digital Economy and Society ministry’s Anti-Fake News Centre, which will provide the banks with links to fake news databases.
Crime
Hooked on heroin at 12: IMH survey finds starting mean age for drug consumption in S’pore at 15.9 years
Through the survey, it is estimated that 0.7 per cent of Singapore residents had abused drugs in the past year.
Bulk breakfast orders lead police to fake India call centre
The centre had housed dozens of employees, who were not allowed to leave the building to prevent them from interacting with outsiders.
Pattaya tourist gambling den ‘bribed officials with 2 million baht’
Police who raided an illegal gambling are investigating claims that the luxury hotel was allowed to operate after bribing the government official.
Websites, apps penalised for misconduct
Leaders of more than 2,000 websites were summoned and instructed to rectify their actions, and 48 websites were banned from offering services.
Malaysia’s illegal exotic pet trade seeing a boom
According to the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) of Peninsular Malaysia, the number of wildlife smuggling cases had gone down from 2020 to 2021 but increased…
Lure of easy money leads Nepalis into traps of online fraudsters
The scams mainly take place through social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Malaysian police hunt for maid who committed lewd act on baby
The woman is currently wanted by police for allegedly exchanging or publishing child pornography.
It was a data leak, not a breach or a hack: Philippine police
The leaked data included clearances issued by the PNP, the National Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Civil Service Commission.
Years after South Korea’s ‘cyber sex prison’ expose, tougher laws still needed for digital sex crime
The prevalence of the crime in highly-wired South Korea is often attributed to the low status of women in its patriarchal society, and fast-developing technology.