At the beginning of July this year, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Simon Lam found himself in a race against the clock. 

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The senior investigation officer at the Singapore Police Force’s (SPF) Anti-Scam Centre was trying to convince a scam victim over the phone that he was a real police officer. But the victim was confused, as the scammer had impersonated a police officer the day before to convince him to hand over his bank account details.

Finally, after about two hours of intervention, ASP Lam had a breakthrough.

He sent the victim a news article about the modus operandi of a government official impersonation scam. It was a carbon copy of what the victim experienced.

That broke the spell over the victim. 

“I just felt really stupid. I felt like I had been completely sucked in. I felt I should have done better," said 58-year-old John (not his real name). "But at that point when I first realised I was a victim of a scam, I was hoping to get it stopped."

John, who works in the financial services sector, was speaking to reporters anonymously at a police briefing on Friday (Aug 26) on the mid-year crime statistics. 

In the first half of 2022, scams continued to be the main driver of crime, with 14,349 cases reported.

This is an 85 per cent increase from the 7,746 cases in the same period last year.

The increase in scams drove up the total number of reported crimes to 25,593 cases, up from 18,725 cases in the same period last year, said SPF in a media release on Monday.