Internet Security

Cybercrime rates are increasing in Singapore, e-commerce cheating or extortion on cyberspace climbed from 510 cases to 1,659 cases last year.
Teenagers one of the easiest target online.

1. Have you heard before a stranger online ask you for more of your information because they want to be friend with you?

2. Asking you for your address so they can send a gift to you?

3. Asking you to on your webcam to video chat?

4. Telling you they really like you and want you to become their girl/boyfriend?

5. They were really sweet to you for the few days or weeks. But then, they started asking for more.
For example:
Telling you they have some money issue, and you as their 'girlfriend', you should lend them some money. Once you lend it to them, they will never stop asking for more. When you do not want to lend them money, they will start bully you online.

OR

They begin to ask you for photos of yourself, at first, they ask for normal pictures, however, what they really want is you to trust them. So they can ask for more, like nude photos of yourself. Then when you 'broke up' with them, they would start to blackmail you.

6. They will tell you they are from some unknown agency, and they are finding models. They praised you and told you that you were what they are looking for. Then they will ask you to send photos of yourself to them. Just last month, a man offers a teen job, then tells her to perform indecent acts. According to the police, the 19-year-old was told by the man to carry out indecent acts in front of the webcam. He then took photographs of her performing these acts without her knowledge and allegedly blackmailed her for money.

Police say that members of public should beware of such scams and take the following precautionary measures:

-Exercise caution when befriending strangers on the internet.

-Do not agree to any request that may put you in a vulnerable position, such as performing compromising acts in front of a webcam and providing personal details to other internet users.

-Contact the police immediately if you receive any message or call from anyone claiming he/she is in some kind of trouble overseas and need you to urgently send money over.

-Inform the police if anyone tries to extort money from you.

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