Despite efforts to clamp down on scams in Singapore, residents here are still at high risk of phone scams. In fact, a recent survey commissioned by cloud communications company, Toku, found that out of the 1,000 respondents in Singapore, 75% have actually answered a scam call recently.
In The Spotlight, Prime Time's Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish spoke with Thomas Laboulle, Founder and CEO of Toku to find out more about the evolving nature of phone scams and how to spot them.
Highlights of the conversation:
02:18 : Ways scam calls are evolving so quickly
04:03 : Why people are still falling victim to scam calls
07:53 : Toku's partnership with foodpanda
09:07 : How far can technology go in preventing phone scams