Scammers
November 18th, 2024 | 
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Just the first half of 2024, there is a record 26,587 reported scam cases. And here comes the staggering stats. Losses exceeded $385.6 million.
That means nearly $400m transferred hands, from the innocent individuals to the scammers, the lambs to the wolves. I believe that these are hard-earned money, and even savings for retirement.
Mind you, they are reported cases. We have no figures about those who gave away their life savings but rather keep quiet about it because they don’t want their adult children to find it out, for fear of incurring their wrath or disappointment.
I know of a close friend who was being scammed too, and it is a painful experience. A costly lesson.
We lodged a police report but there is little the police could do. These scammers are faceless, hiding behind the cloak of anonymity. They can be anywhere, across the causeway, across a few borders, operating from an out-of-reach location.
They are also a few scammers removed, down the line. They set up a clandestine system where they control the dough and exploit the rest of the hirelings, who work for them behind the scene. And they have no conscience. They act with absolute impunity.
To the scammers, the victims are just a means to an end. They are faceless too. The victim on the other side of the digital line is just a target.
Everything follows a script and the hired scammers just play it out. They are conscientiously trained, some at gunpoint. And they are paid peanuts, if at all. Some scammers are young recruits who themselves are victims, sold to an organisation that hold them against their will and their loved ones in ransom.
The masterminds will stop at nothing as long as there is money to be made. And if hundreds of millions can transfer hands within 6 months, from honest hands that labour in earnest to dishonest ones that steal without conscience, you can rest assured crooks will make a thriving business out of it.
I can imagine a global moral meter, and it measures how we respond in such situations.
Of course, there will be people who live with integrity and sacrifice for others. They rather live upright lives with what little they have than to live in opulence with ill-gotten gains. The world is indeed blessed by such people who leave this world a better place.
But this moral meter often tilts to the other end too. Through the exploitation of technology, they reap effortlessly by cheating and robbing, leaving a trail of innocent victims with nothing left for their retirement.
The lesson here is to fight back. Stay vigilant. Lottery strike don’t happen without queuing up for a ticket. Money don’t fall from the sky. Your default position with such seemingly well-intended strangers, who come from nowhere, and ask you for money or password, is to hang up.
Alternatively, double, if not, triple check that charming voice or disarming text message with people you trust. Give it as much time as possible. You are in no hurry.
Remember, your life-savings can be emptied with just one or two clicks. It can happen before you can say, “How come?”
These scammers can be sipping latte in some godforsaken island and be a few thousand of dollars richer in a second or two.
Unlike bank robbers who have to risk arrest and bullet wounds when they force counter clerks to empty the vault, these scammers can sell you hope and companionship for a lifetime, and at the same time, rob you of a lifetime of savings right under your nose.
So, when in doubt, walk away.
The article below by law lecturer Ben Chester Cheong is a good read about the measures set in place to thwart the illicit global transfer of wealth for the benefit of crooks.
It works on the demand and supply side of things, where law enforcers are given the powers, as a last resort, (that is, restriction orders) to halt certain banking transactions, if all the the red flags are raised that a scam is in progress.
On the bank side, there is the Shared Responsibility Framework, which will kick in on 16 Dec, where banks and service providers will block or hold suspicious transactions exceeding $25k for 24 hours, and further imposing a 12-hour cooling-off period for large transfers.
All these are proactive steps taken to staunch the bleeding, in a world where the wolves are raising their standards to rob us. We must fight back and set a high wall to push them back.
Michael Han
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This is just peanuts.
The real $cammers are ‘legali$ed’ and whiter than white ,immaculately $inle$$?
What do you say?
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Nothing like $1.5M HDB ,right?
So many sinkies already kena scammed big time.
This is small matter.
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I have always said that the digital world is created by individuals to Rob, sitting in the comfort of their homes. The millions that are robbed daily globally is proof that I may not be wrong.We had an almost safe system in place. Once in a while there may have been a breach but the sheer nos. of scams nowdays should send warnings to our government agencies and law enforcement that we should be careful of introducing new systems or replacing systems which have functioned in our interest.Why use systems that allow theft of our monies and identity? Is the speed and convenience needed or has it been sold to us by commercial entities which have the most to gain? Is it safe to have all our information in one central place which will be hacked into in some period in time? After which, a blackmail may follow.In the West the choice of payment is still maintained but in Singapore, the ruling party is forcing a system that will eventually Rob us completely.
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I had said here umpteenth time that individual must take responsibility for their decision and action and vice versa for the government.
Shared Responsibility Framework should not just for Financial sector. Shared Responsibility Framework should be for everyone.
Rowan Atkinson：We all have to take responsibility for what we say.
https://youtu.be/ebx-hw_knnU
Watch video at time frame 8:26
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”Billion-dollar money laundering case: 15 of 17 foreigners who fled Singapore agree to surrender S$1.85b of assets”
So Scammers, Money Launderers, Tax Evaders are all welcome into Sinkingland.
HDB and private housing are driven beyond the reach of NS-serving true blue sons-of-the soil.
All are gentrified towards Jurong West.
The biggest scammers are the biggest land owner in Sinkingland
and the property developers. Politically well-connected GCB owners
and the 5% that owned multiple properties gained the most.
The biggest losers are the unborn grand children—this place is now too expensive to procreate.
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Not just scammers.
Gangsterism getting more wide-spread.
LKY did a good job.
But all getting destroyed.
Police cannot cope and so pander to the law-breakers /perpetrators at the expense of law-abiding citizens.
LW needa to relook.
Hope LW can bring orderlinesw back.
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Even if a scammer sitting next to the police sipping tea tarik, the police can do nothing, as there is no law against such crime.
If a victim reported a scamming case, the victim is warned by the police, if he received a deposit in his bank, that was found to be from victims of scams, he will be charged in court. Ironic isn’t it?
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Is calling someone who paid for a 99-year lease HDB and signing a lease agreement, an OWNER a scam?
Is claiming that ‘don’t perform have to go’ but keeping tons of GIC jiak liao bees with the latest 299 million loss on UK shopping mall investment a scam?
Is claiming to have integrity and social levelling a scam since DSA briberies and ‘personal connections’ are allowed? LHL didn’t want to do proper tests. Is it because DSA is under someone with kin connections to him? Giving the same pot of money to families who are poorer and see if they come up tops for ‘expensive talent grooming’ developments. What about THE NEW GUY?
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Someone factored in exchange rate and calculated the loss as S$600 million.
From 2007 to 2024, as a 50% owner, did GIC receive any profit, or did they put in more money? We will never know.
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Let me put the question in another way.
Is charging early termination fee by Adobe a scam?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Adobe/comments/wflha9/wow_cancellation_fee_for_early_termination/?rdt=61545
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We all know who the biggest scam artists are. But so many of those they scam support them no matter what. So who is to blame for our predicament? The scammer or those victims of the scammers who support the scammers?
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Current batch of pests out in the streets:
1) Donation touts at Penang Road above Dhoby Ghaut MRT.
2) HSBC credit card tout at Suntec City.
Cannot take no for an answer. Must shout/heckle at people.
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Mr Zaqy, who is also Senior Minister of State for Manpower, added that during the last disbursement of such credits through the same application in 2022, about 88 per cent of eligible servicemen who were above 60 years old managed to use their credits, and just 2 per cent of them requested and received hard-copy vouchers.
“So the numbers are quite small,” he said.
“So the numbers are quite small,” he said.
The gov deprived 12% of old NS Sinkies of their rightful money. The minister has to cheek to claim the numbers are quite small.
EVERY DOLLAR CHEATED IS A SHAMEFUL RECORD FOR THIS GOV.
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Land Acquisition Act allowed them to take the land almost for free.
GCB owning party inflate sinking land with scammers, money launderers and so-called family office tax evaders.
Now public/private housing and CPI shoot through the roof.
Most EXPENSIVE city in the world
How many papig millionsters have or have sold GCBs.
Come clean and declare your assets to the people.
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No worries,so what USA has biggest debt.
So what “Huuuge” Deficit.
Mr Trump is drumming a trance.
The WHOLE OF AMERICA GETS CHARMED.
$TOCKS WILL KEEP CLIMBING HIGHER.
MIGHTY USD gets MIGHTIER STILL.
Who cares about HIGH DEBT AND HIGH DEFICIT ?!
Afterall,THIS IS AMERICA,not Asia.
So,NO AFC(Asian Financial Crisis).
You see,AFC was Angmoh-driven in truth.
Angmohs blamed Asian High Debt and created the AFC BUT ANGMOHS HAVE HIGH DEBT,ASIA STILL “LEND” DARN ANGMOHS MORE MONEY,no questions asked and NO CRISIS???
If Asian has such high debt as mighty USA,already get whacked Triple Whammy!
Make America Great Again.
We(Americans) Spend,You(Asians) pay???
Make America Great Again with Tariffs.
Next to love and God,Tariff is the most beautiful thing.
Make America Great Again .
Trump Drum will alas be in vain.
Trump DUMP once again.
Don’t blame and blame.
It’s all a Vanity Game.
Beware of next pandemic “viru$” if Trump cannot make America Great Again before his 2nd Term ends…
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Just one thing.
HDB at $1.5M is a real $cam.
We can argue till the cows come home,it is@still a $cam against own citizens and benefitting PRs mostly.
Can any nationalistic sg disagree?
If ANY TRUE SG insist irrationally that it is not,I guess you are beyond redemption.
Better for you to live in IMH.
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The FT policy is a scam.
In fact,a big scam.
Idiotic sinkies still sleep-walking.
The damn stupid educated types are the most daft lah.
Sometimes wonder why they fiack oppo when the oppo are not the ones that screw them up.
This shows how stupid such sinkies are.
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China clamped down on private tuition some years back and it was an awakening. SG? Tuition = billion dollar business because so many teachers under DSA minister’s wings hiding in the shadows. SG has many good calibre students but so many let down by screw up teachers. Then DSA minister had the stupidity to send educators to schools for checks when tip offs were released way before for wayang teachers to prepare some showsmanship.
Then he got the cheek to tell parents and students not to treat teachers as service providers.
Then when it comes to scholarship applications, so many parents who could afford and gave their kids tuition, get successful scholarships and appointments. When subject A’s are not enough, parents pump more money for ‘talent developments’, if not where did so many DSA applications sprout from? These are what the old head and the DSA minister classify as meritocracy. My foot.
The old head said ‘don’t perform have to go’. People are really idiots to believe what he said when there is so much talk that the DSA minister still hanging around because of his kinship.
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And what is your solution to Singapore low birth rate ?
Talk C0ck Sing Song No Action Talk Only Whiner?
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You think you are very smart to ask commenters for solutions? They are not paid millions to come up with solutions, in contrast to those who are paid millions every year and have no solution.
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@SRFR THE DAFT TALK COCK GAY MAN
WTF! So pump more here to stress the trublu sgs more and become even less fertile?
BTW,what is real benefit of pumping fake talents like you here?
To Further Bring Down National Productivity?
Yes,that has been the REAL NET CONTRIBUTION OF IDIOTS-ACT-TALENT LIKE YOU.
So,with more aliens,FERTILITY RATE WENT UP?
COCK THINKING MEANS COCK-MOUTHS LIKE YOU!
In the past before being flooded with fake FTs,we did better both in fertility rate and national productivity.
Can you prove with more FTs here,fertility improves or national productivity?
Tell you,if the Sg Govt keeps purting their faith in dafts like you.Sg and sgs will be destroyed faster.
Go back to where you belong.
And,if you are born and bred here,I can only say you are stinking useless trait** fit for the dung-hole!
Go get your shit face flushed in the toilet bowl after the FTs have shitted on it!
That is where you truly belong.
You are a piece of toxic dung!!!
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LW IS APPLYING SCARE TACTICS.
As if sgs vote for oppo,Sg will face grave despair as PAP govt would look weak.
Still daft sinkies will buy in.
In other First World countries,oppo forms as much as close to 50 pct.
Here a few oppo MPs and the mighty PAP cannot cope?
Time to wake up from the child’s scare.
The real nightmare is when PAP VOTE MAJORIRY INCREASES as that means more FTs,higher GST and COEs even for utility-motorbikes.
Vote for more good oppo sgs from SDP and PAP.
Else,you will get more wayanging.
Sgs,be wise and use your vote to vote for CHANGE FOR OUR SGS’ COMMON GOOD.
Do not cowpeh and cowpeh after GE if you anyhow throw your sacred vote away.
Too many PAPies will get you more dizzy.
Vote wisely.
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Who told you we have no solution?
Our great PAP solution is being copied by Japan too.
Improved Immigration: Japan’s Solution to Its Population Crisis
https://hir.harvard.edu/improved-immigration-japan/
Japan’s foreign resident population exceeds 3 million for first time
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-immigration/Japan-s-foreign-resident-population-exceeds-3-million-for-first-time2
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Unable to stomach the hard truth ?
Opposition supporters had many faces but one common traits, that is, Talk C0ck Sing Song No Action Talk Only Whiner like Ed?
https://tinyurl.com/2k6xpvtu
Andrea: Ed, tell you what… you don’t like how your laundry is done, you are welcome to pitch in and do it yourself.
Ed: Ain’t my job, missy.
Andrea: What is your job, Ed? Sitting on your ass smoking cigarettes and Talk C0ck Sing S0ng No Action Talk Only whine day long?
btw, have you pitch in and donate for charity before?
No? You are a true Free Rider.
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If a scammer scam another,he is
just a mere cheat.
But if public servants “$cam” the citizens by their “policie$”,that makes such public servants “TRAITORS”.
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SRFR
So you confirm you are talk c**k king.
No worries,all trublu sgs know who you are- a piece of shit-brain.
Donate to charity must report meh?
As for you,stop being a parasite.
Go screw yourself.
You are COCK-TALKER XO.
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That’s 狗官，。。。
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@”btw, have you pitch in and donate for charity before?
No? You are a true Free Rider.”
Response: dont think every donors are ‘god’ (不要把每个捐款者都当成’神’).
As Straits times reported: “Money laundering case: President’s Challenge received over $350k in donations, ComChest got $30k.”
Do you know what’s the meaning of free rider?
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SRFR also volunteers for pervert objective. He demands to know people’s sexual history before any help (with others’ money).
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Pro Demoncracy cannot handle the truth?
FREE SPEECH ARRESTED IN LONDON
https://youtu.be/Gvi60IXoLpg
Haha. Your colonial master is the bigest COCK TALKER on Freedom, Demoncracy, Human Rights.
Like the Hong Kee, You are betrayed and screwed by your colonial master and still proud of it.
被卖了还开心帮数钞票。哈哈哈
Hahahaha
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Why not you answer below questions.
Q. Your parents provided you with everything from baby to adulthood. One day, you found out that the good materials life you had been enjoying is income from NOT LEGAL or DEADLY (sell heroin) means.
1. Do you turn a blind eyes to it and continue to enjoy the good material life?
2. Turn your parents in to the police, pay back and yes, pay back all the monies that was used to uphold your good material life for past 25 years and live in poverty ?
Relax, Don’t run away.
Let’s us hear your answer to 1 and 2.
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If you are asking hypothetical questions, you need to set a public persona (人设).
Are you implying that if answer is 1, it is free rider?
If answer is 2, it is not free rider?
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It is not a hypothetical questions.
It is a real life story of ex ROC Taiwan president.
Her father run night club and pimp girls to US soldiers.
https://youtu.be/BQmaRMyArPI
Born into wh$re house. 出生窯門
https://youtu.be/Og1c0Y_iEAo
https://www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/%E7%AB%A5%E6%96%87%E8%96%B0-WEN-HSUN-TUNG-ebook/dp/B08BLQJ85D
So, what is your answer to 1) and 2)
Don’t dodge my questions with more question. Just answer it.
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There are quite a few persons who got their humongous pay through legal means, but they are so ashamed that they dare not let people know how much they got.
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The information you want is here.
https://www.psd.gov.sg/files/handout-3—composition-of-revised-salaries-for-politcal-appointment-holders-under-the-new-framework.pdf
You MUST be charged for spreading fake news.
False Information and Hoaxes | 18 U.S. Code § 1038
https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/false-information
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Since you are so righteous, what about those countries built on stolen land and the massacre of the indigenous population?
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1) I said hypothetical is bcoz you said “your parents ….”, which the story dont match my situation.
But i have seen some related situation in korean drama, different characters will make different choices.
2) your 2 choices are presumptive answers, there can be 3, 4 or 5..
3) based on your dislike of your ex-ROC taiwan president, I know your preferred answer. Are you saying your preferred answer is the right choice?
Btw, how many politicians and rich people are pure clean especially after world war era?
4) my answer to you is no matter what choice you make, there is karma. How her family became rich, how she became president is blessing from previous life (前世修来的). Whether a person is rich, powerful, poor, honest, righteous, scammer…all are accumulated karma.
5) @”Her father run night club and pimp girls to US soldiers.”
How about the legalised geylang red light district?
Any difference between the two?
6) i am just asking you ‘are you saying people who dont donate to charity is free rider?’ Why you run so far to taiwan.
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Dear Inuit:
When did I claim to be so righteous?
It was your silly Opposition supporters Relax who himself claim to be so righteous with his post below.
You better Fact Checks first before you shoot off your mouth least you get charged for spreading fakes news.
Do you want to be the FIRST to be charge with Felony ?
Protesters who blocked Golden Gate Bridge hit with false imprisonment charges
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/protesters-blocked-golden-gate-bridge-false-imprisonment-charges/3621728/
NBC News: Protesters hit with Felony charge
https://youtu.be/6gBaksgz7NA
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Okay, it is crystal clear now, you are not righteous, period!
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Do you have problem in interpretation?
When did I say I am righteous?
How did you come to this conclusion after reading my general opinion on donation?
Do you know the person’s donation motive?
You better fact check first before you shoot off your mouth least you get charged for spreading fake news. I am ‘fairness and equality’ supporter.
How should you describe a person who commented:”have you pitch in and donate for charity before? No, you are a true free rider.”?
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”We gave up city life and moved to New Zealand. We earn less, but the tradeoffs are worth it.”
Young ER nurses…the type of people we can least afford to lose.
Land ACQ Act to confiscate cheap land.
Build million dollar BTOs —huge SCAM.
Biggest SCAM in the UNIVERSE.
Smart Sinkies migrated TO NZ—refuse to be VICTIMS of HDB SCAM.
Live in REAL HOUSE…no longer pigeon holes in the sky on decaying lease.
ALSO not victim of COE scam.
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RWS (GENTING) found to be lacking in attracting tourst numbers.
Probably their licence will be withdrawn in time.
Maybe TH takes over?
Or,China company ?
Well,our neighbours can attract tourists better.
What do tourists especially rich tourists want?
10-year series $cholars have no idea.
Why MBS so successful?
Sentosa Resort has been lagging all these years and why?
It is too “plastic” and getting more so.
I have stopped going there for 2 decades or more.
There is no “local” life there except the $ento$a Cove for the Rich .
Unlike MBS,at least local life abounds.
Jeju is so successful.
Why?
Local life breathes all over the island.
$in $cholars need 10year series to “REGURGITATE” TO GET DISTINCTIONS.
DAFT IS STUPID.
AND STUPIDITY HAS NO CURE.
THE WHOLE OF $G IS DAFT AS LKY SAID SO.
THE “WHOLE” FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.
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You are an idiot.
What is right to you is wrong to others.
Today’s terrorist, tomorrow’s freedom fighter.
https://youtu.be/wx8H7jV1xWY
Now idiot. Answer this question.
1. Today is terrorist,
2. Tomorrow is freedom fighter.
Who is right? Choose 1 only.
Answer 1 or 2 is suffice.
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FR will take that as a compliment. He’s e-v-i-l and pervert.
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No right or wrong
No basic human decency
Know nothing about the basic principles of standard to be observed, and
The mere mention of any thing related to this being would dirty one’s mouth.
Yeark!
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Ok, So you have right and wrong and basic human decency?
Read below article and then answer me.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/12/06/satans-chosen-people-4/
Is the Israeli 1) God’s Chosen People or 2) Satan’s Chosen People?
Please choose 1) or 2) only.
If you are unable to answer, you are a dirty shameless coward.
Yes, it dirty your mouth because you are a dirty shameless coward who ran away from my question.
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You give all the wrong answers and you want people to choose one? People not stupid.
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Too much emphasis on normal scamming.
Too few here take note of policies that scam big time.
Sometimes looking at a thing such as $1.5M HDB makes one think if this is legalised scam.
Well,many Toto punters expressed to me that they feel uneasy about the pattern of top prize winners.
Like $1M plus,13 winners to split.
Like $6M only one winner?
This doubt cast by lack of transparency as regulator is also operator.
Well,I only buy during Chinese New Year draws.
Feel uneasy lah.
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WAO…………! Serious?
In Singapore, only Minister of Home Affairs knows the answer.
Do you wish you be referred to the ministry for the answer?
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More scams.
Recent MRT tracks came to sudden stop and staff asked commuters to alight at Bugis not reported.
Next NYC’s ST reported shamelessly that EWL services resume ahead of schedule.
You people collect millions and billions each month and still want to beautify failures, knowing that election is around the corner. Like one whole load of beauticians, including those in SPH living on 900m for five years, touching up for transport corpses.
Don’t need to fine the transport operators since we know they will angkart the PTC to pass the costs back to commuters.
Just need to fire the minister, CEO and chairman. Keeping CHT and Co on pay cheque is a scam.
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In God We Tru$t America Papa Pardon Son’s Democratic system say:
Either you are with us, (1) God’s Chosen People aka Democratic
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1702865019911742
or you are with the terrorists. (2) Satan’s Chosen People aka Dictatorship
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSj374XKE/
By your logic, your America Papa also give wrong answers. Yes or No ?
Please answer. Just answer Yes or No is suffice.
Don’t run away.
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Got Picture Got Talk..
No picture means you are lying. Period.
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Cannot answer my question and twist and turn like a snake/serpent?
https://youtu.be/ZFK0jCozq2o&t=2s
Maybe the question is too difficult for you ?
Here, answer this simple question.
In God We Tru$t America Papa Pardon Son’s Democratic system say:
Either you are with us, (1) God’s Chosen People aka Democratic
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1702865019911742
or you are with the terrorists. (2) Satan’s Chosen People aka Dictatorship
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSj374XKE/
Choose 1 or 2 is suffice.
Your answer?
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No picture, lying? Dare the authorities come to this forum, open their mouths to say it didn’t happen? I heard that there is a SRFR puppy who bs his way and denies realities in this forum. Must be you.
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Don’t divert attention.
Show us the picture or be sued and charged for spreading false information.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/35
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Well said.
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Oh you haven’t gotten your freaking masters here. Just go to them and woof woof a few more times, will you?
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Typical behaviour of U$/Western Pro Democracy supporter aka trait0r.
They spread fake news and when they are exposed, they will twist and turn and ran away like cockroaches and snakes.
https://youtu.be/ihdnLWui9C8?si=KLBDJYUFYoBWJNYx
U$/Western Pro Democracy supporter are dishonest lying peeps. They trick you into voting them under the pretext of pursuing Democracy.
假行民主之名骗选票。
https://youtu.be/ZFK0jCozq2o&t=2s
Please go ask your freaking Americunt Papa Joe how to PARDON SON in Democracy.
https://youtu.be/T5ei9KmLQ5s
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