An animal lover was $1,788 poorer. What actually happened was that she typed the wrong URL address of SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). She logged in to http://www.spca.com.sg thinking that this is the official SPCA online address and wanted to adopt a kitten. The wrong address redirected her to a collective advertisement page http://www.sgadsonline.com where, one of the advertisers (a scammer) provided an email address for the same purpose. Using money transfer, she parted amounts of $300, $500, etc. until she realised something was wrong.
When contacted, SPCA (the correct URL is www.spca.org.sg) said they does not carried out any adoption transaction online.
A short note on URL address – www= world wide web, the second group of letters refers to the unique “Company/Organizaion” name, the third group refers to “Type of business”, e.g. com=commerial, org=organisation, gov= government, edu=educational institutions, soc=society, etc. the fourth group refers to the “Country” the web addressed is registered, e.g. sg=Singapore, blank=U.S.A., hk=Hong Kong, my=Malaysia, etc.
ACS Class of 61/63 