Singapore is planning to introduce caning as a punishment for scammers.
During the bill’s second reading on Tuesday, Sim Ann, senior minister of state for home and foreign affairs, said the country lost more than $2.8 billion to scams from 2020 to the first half of 2025.
She added that around 190,000 cases of scamming had been reported during the period.
“We will introduce mandatory caning for scammers. Offenders who commit scams, defined as cheating mainly by means of remote communication, will be punished with at least six strokes of the cane,” she said.