{"id":81030,"date":"2025-11-05T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81030"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:39:55","slug":"law-passed-for-scammers-mules-to-be-caned-after-victims-in-singapore-lose-almost-4b-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/05\/law-passed-for-scammers-mules-to-be-caned-after-victims-in-singapore-lose-almost-4b-since-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Law passed for scammers, mules to be caned after victims in Singapore lose almost $4b since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/52e1dfe8926d56f04039f39c5071773240135f4bd367b47554e73451ef22ebd5\" alt=\"The enhanced punishments for scams come as the Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill was passed in Parliament on Nov 4.\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scammers, syndicate members, and recruiters will face caning, with severity determining the number of strokes (6-24). Mules may get up to 12 strokes.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/politics\/law-passed-for-scammers-mules-to-be-caned-after-victims-in-singapore-lose-almost-4b-since-2020\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Scammers, syndicate members, and recruiters will face caning, with severity determining the number of strokes (6-24). Mules may get up to 12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/scammers-canned.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81032,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81030\/revisions\/81032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}