In partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA)A delegation led by Singapore's Attorney-General Lucien Wong met Mongolia's national police leadership and the digital development minister on 29 July 2026. The two sides agreed to work together on cross-border cybercrime and to study Singapore's Anti-Scam Centre model.
This year's World Day Against Trafficking in Persons ran under the theme 'Trapped Behind the Scam'. The UN warned that people lured by fake job offers are increasingly forced to work in scam centers, a fast-growing crime in our region.
Chen Zhi, founder of the Prince Group — one of the large online-scam networks operating out of Cambodia — was sentenced to death in China. Thousands of people from our region are reported to have been forced to work in such centers.
Fake pages copying the names, logos and branding of commercial banks are spreading, promising bonuses and giveaways to collect personal and banking details. Police advise checking any offer through the bank's official channels.
Callers posing as police officers tell citizens that fraud has been committed in their name and press them to transfer money. Police remind the public that they never demand transfers by phone.
Rental-apartment scams rise every year as school-season housing demand peaks. One tenant lost a deposit to a fake Facebook listing offering a 1.4-million-tugrik monthly rental. The advice: never transfer a deposit before seeing the apartment.
Interpol and Europol's 2026 reports put cybercrime at over 30% of all recorded crime in the Asia-Pacific region. 82.6% of phishing messages are now written with AI — a sign of how fast scam techniques are industrializing.