Summary Ever received a phone call from a Singapore number that isn’t in your contacts? Scammers are increasingly using numbers that appear local — making their calls harder to spot. So where are these calls really coming from, and how do scammers make them look Singapore-based? Even as close to 100 million potential scam calls were blocked by telcos and authorities, victims still lost around S$456 million to scams in the first half of 2025. Talking Point investigates how these scam calls keep getting through — and what needs to be done to stop them....