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minister is cute !coomers
!asians in shambles
SINGAPORE: Singapore will consider caning scammers in certain cases, in recognition of the serious harm they cause, Minister of State for Home Affairs and Social and Family Development Sun Xueling said on Tuesday (Mar 4).
She was responding to a suggestion from MP Tan Wu Meng (PAP-Jurong) in her speech laying out the Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) spending plans for the year ahead.
Dr Tan had earlier called for mandatory caning for scammers in egregious cases.
"We must send a clear message to scammers, the syndicates and those who abet them: If you mess with our people, make off with the life savings of Singaporeans, scam Singaporeans, we must do everything in our power to teach the scammers a lesson they won't forget," he said.
Ms Sun agreed with the need for stiff and deterrent sentences against those who facilitate scams.
After the recent introduction of new guidelines by a sentencing advisory panel, jail terms have generally been imposed for offences which facilitate scams, going as high as 19 months in one case, she noted.
GOING HARDER ON MONEY MULES
Ms Sun also announced that efforts to better detect money mule activity will be ramped up this year.
"We have been clamping down on them, because they are the main way overseas scammers launder their ill-gotten gains and transfer it out of Singapore," she said.
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) will share more information with banks on known mule accounts, to improve their fraud analytics and enable them to uncover other mule accounts, she said.
"We will also work with the industry to implement cooling-off measures for certain activities which are tell-tale signs of money mule activity," she said.
Ms Sun warned that anyone seeking an easy profit by passing on their SIM cards or bank accounts to strangers, while "turning a blind eye" to what they are used for, would be breaching the law.
"Let me be clear. This is a crime and there is an imprisonment term for passing on your SIM cards or bank accounts to facilitate scams. Claiming ignorance does not get you off the hook," said Ms Sun.
Over 8,000 money mules and scammers were investigated last year, from 25 islandwide anti-scam enforcement operations by the SPF, said Ms Sun.
Of them, over 660 have been charged in court and will be jailed if found guilty, she said.
In one concluded case, a money mule had received RM1,000 (US$224) for sharing access to his internet banking account, without taking "reasonable steps to ascertain the purpose of this arrangement", said Ms Sun.
The bank account was later used to launder more than S$160,000 (US$118,989) of criminal proceeds.
"The money mule was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment," said Ms Sun.
In her speech, Ms Sun reiterated that scams were a huge concern globally, and a scourge Singapore has been fighting for several years.
Despite efforts such as making banking apps malware-resistant and blocking calls from known scam numbers, the total amount lost to scams still hit a new high of S$1.1 billion last year, she said.
This was a 70 per cent increase from the year before, noted Ms Sun.
"Many people are rightfully very concerned about this, and so is the government. We must and we will redouble our efforts in this fight against scams," she said.
- dang : Fake and straight
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amazon execs r so mad LOLLL maybe stop asking dumb interview questions and people wouldn't build shit like thishttps://t.co/RMwouy3enr pic.twitter.com/sBdWTx2aFJ
— Roy (@im_roy_lee) February 28, 2025
- AIDS_IS_A_CHOICE : There's no poll! I can't communicate if this is a hit or a miss (it's a hit)
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I understand video(s) may have been released via a media outlet tonight. I hope this “warrants” the state to “search” for certain devices and certain tapes at a certain location.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) March 4, 2025
Thanks.
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- Saitama : shoes
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I need help organizing....please
I have been fascinated by the Holocaust since I was a kid. Every time I see the shoes of the victims in that huge, endless pile it's a knife to my gut I would like congress to see a visual representation of what they are doing to us I want to literally invite them to "put themselves in our shoes." By piling.pairs of shoes representing all the people they are hurting, or in cases like mine quite possibly killing. Baby shoes, work boots, old lady shoes, worn out grandma house slippers, a trans woman's shoes that make her feel beautiful, all the shoes. And pile them on the Capitol steps to represent us. I am too darned sickto organize it myself but I think we seed to find a focal point that represents us all. Almost all of us wear shoes, even amputees. So it's inclusive What is happening in this country affects people from all walks of life, even if we follow different paths. We need to come together. We need action, focus, unity and a reminder of how much we have in common. To pull this off we need:
a dump date, the day we do this protest/art installation.
People to get the word out
Collection sites
People to pick shoes up from collection sites
Storage pods
People to transport the shoes to DC
People to pile the chores on the steps
Coverage,
Is anybody willing to take this protest and run with it?
guys i have this great idea! but i need someone else do all the work for me
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And now for the main star of the show, I stumbled upon /u/Lefty_22, a lolcow who in 2020 made it on Cringetopia and was immortalized on "average redditor" memes for this absolutely kino comment:
"I can't comprehend how a country that makes manga could have such a problem. Like if you are sad just read about JoJo or something." 
Nibba obviously deleted his comment long ago but I still got the link to the original comment chain
Redditcels always seething at WeeabARYANS
!chuds !r-slurs !trump2024 !trump2028 !the_donald !project2025 !weebs !anime !asians !soyteens
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Red leaf lettuce 🥬 #今日は何の日 #春のサニーレタスの日 #サニーレタスの日 pic.twitter.com/yXfhrbsmi5
— parico (@parirobo) March 2, 2025
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VA dismisses more than 1,000 employees in line with Trump's sweeping layoffs https://t.co/yVr5GnapFK
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 14, 2025
The Dept. of Veterans Affairs is getting layoffs https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/25/these-are-human-beings-va-fires-1400-more-employees-it-considers-nonessential.html and there are already reports of their phones not being answered due to a lack of staff.
It's okay though, nobody actually cares if these racist gun nut chuds don't get their undeserved neetbux I'm sure all the homeless vets are really happy with Trump!
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Conservatism Saved As Muslim Sex Trafficker Brought Back To U.S. https://t.co/g8oFU3knbI pic.twitter.com/xt2bQwAxD9
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 27, 2025
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Troll radical left Reddit by saying nice things about me for the most fun 😂 https://t.co/OC01fRrOJ9
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 28, 2025
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So far no reddit posts about it, but chuds on Twitter are jerking off over it.
Seems more like the sexual abuse caused her to commit suicide, no?
— kaosblatte (@kaosblatte) March 1, 2025
All these hate crimes turn out to be fake
— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) March 1, 2025
The reaction to her suicidе has convinced me that this culture war brain disease is turning the right into mentally numb psychopaths. If a tragedy involving an innocent person occurs on the perceived ideological “other side” they hold back any sympathy and resort to celebration https://t.co/uYQeafaoZt
— Spondor 🌲✞ (@willowtarka) February 22, 2025
It was obviously propaganda when the story first came out. https://t.co/wBk51JjH4N
— dregs (@dregs_of_soc) March 1, 2025
First of all, it's likely bullshit. There's more to that story.
— dregs (@dregs_of_soc) February 22, 2025
Second, every bit of this is on the people who encouraged and allowed illegal immigration. Now we have to do difficult things to fix it, things that shouldn't have ever been necessary.
What was the immigration status of “family member”?
— Still Boneless (@still_boneless) March 1, 2025
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