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SINGAPORE \u2013 Victims have lost at least $60,000 in lucky draw scams involving Facebook Live since May 20, with at least 33 cases reported, the police said on June 15.<\/p>\n
In an advisory, the police urged the public to be vigilant against such ruses, which involve scammers promoting scratch cards or lottery tickets offering cash prizes on Facebook live streams.<\/p>\n
After buying the scratch cards or lottery tickets, the scammers would tell the victims that they had won a large cash prize, the police said.<\/p>\n
The victims would then be asked to transfer money to claim their winnings for \u201cadministrative fees\u201d, among other reasons.<\/p>\n
In most cases, victims are told to make these payments via a PayNow QR code linked to a Liquidpay account, said police.<\/p>\n
The victims would realise they had been scammed only when they did not receive their \u201cwinnings\u201d, or when they could not contact the scammers.<\/p>\n
In their advisory, the police told the public not to transfer or hand over money or other valuables to unknown people.<\/p>\n
The public may download the ScamShield app to protect themselves from scams, the police added. They may also set transaction limits on internet banking transactions or use a money lock feature to protect savings in bank accounts from scams.<\/p>\n
The public may also check for signs of scams with official sources, such as the ScamShield app or its website.<\/p>\n
The police added that fraudulent transactions should be reported to banks immediately.<\/p>\n
Scams in Singapore have cost victims more than $4 billion since 2019<\/span><\/a>. In 2025, there were 37,308 cases, with $913.1 million lost.<\/p>\n For more information on scams, call the ScamShield Helpline on 1799 or visit scamshield.gov.sg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Victims have lost at least $60,000 in lucky draw scams involving Facebook Live since May 20, with at least 33 cases reported, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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