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39 suspected drug offenders have been arrested after the Central Narcotics Bureau uncovered drug peddling openly advertised across telegram groups and channels.

CNB says traffickers listed drugs including cannabis, ice and ecstasy along with their prices and payment modes such as PayNow and cryptocurrency.

The arrests were made in a nationwide operation.

Preliminary investigations link 19 to the same drug trafficking network.

So think of it this way, right? The checks are banned for corporate payments and a bunch of use cases already.

So you have to look at, and Singapore has its own PayNow version 1 now, there's PayNow version 2, part of the new framework, there's a new authority.

So there are a lot of innovation which needs to happen on that.

And if you compare to equivalent real-time payment systems.

Imagine that you woke up this morning and you checked your phone and you notice an alert from your bank.

And the notification says, you have received $1,000 from PayNow.

And you click on it, and you see who it's from, and you have absolutely no idea who it's from.

You don't know who they are.

It all worked out because my dad wasn't a scammer.

But here is what we have been told to do, okay? DBS says...

If you receive an unexpected PayNow payment from an unknown source, you should contact the bank immediately so it can investigate and take steps to reverse the transaction.

DBS also warns that holding or using funds that don't belong to you is a criminal offense.

Yeah.

So in fact, actually recently, just last week I went to this cafe and I usually pay by Apple Pay or PayNow.

And then they say, oh, you know, if you're going to pay by credit card, we're going to charge you extra for it.

So that really depends on whether are you okay with it.

Maureen, what do you think?

So, I...

Okay, to be honest with you, I actually met elder folks who knows how to use PayNow PayLa.

Yeah.

So, for example, like 92% of Singaporeans already use digital payments in 2025.

We are a highly digital payments market, right? With PayNow, SGCura, and a very strong wallet ecosystem.

And there's a strong push towards digital cash rather than physical cash.

Yeah.

So, they accept credit card donations.

They accept PayNow donations as well.

Again, only at RedCross.sg.

They actually have a specific UEN that you can send your PayNow to.

And they will also accept donations in person.

If you get an email from RedCross and you click on the email, it says liar-ing.