SINGAPORE – More than 500 fake websites impersonating the Home Affairs Ministry and seven Home Team agencies, such as the Singapore Police Force and the Central Narcotics Bureau, have been taken down.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Aug 12 that the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), which had also been impersonated, detected these websites on Aug 10.
All the identified websites – which replicated the official branding and publicly available content from the websites of MHA and Home Team agencies – were taken down by Aug 11, said the ministry in a Facebook post.
The seven Home Team agencies are: the Singapore Police Force, the Central Narcotics Bureau, the Singapore Civil Defence Force, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, the Singapore Prison Service, the Home Team Academy and HTX.
MHA said that the fake websites could have potentially misled members of the public into believing that they were accessing the official MHA or Home Team agencies’ websites.
Based on investigations so far, there is no evidence that the fake websites have been used to scam others or phish for information from the public, the ministry said.
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