Halimah Yacob filing police report over fake Facebook account

Everyone’s getting a imposter website these days — is it the new in thing? Should we be expecting our own duplicates sometime soon? 

Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob has now become the latest victim in a long string of cases hitting government bodies. She posted an alert on her (real) Facebook page, warning folks of a false Facebook account using bearing her name and pictures. Apparently, the imposter even tried to scam money from others using her name — and she’ll be making a police report over it. 

Just in the past week alone, the Central Provident Fund was hit by a fake website phishing for personal information, and so was the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority
 




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