Singapore Power, which is providing the service, will be testing it at the Singapore Polytechnic. An Internet-savvy teenage drug peddler was nabbed by two narcotics officers after three months of chatting on the Internet and over the telephone. This is the first time anyone here has been convicted of accessing an e-mail account illegally . When they returned, she ended their relationship. She began to get nuisance calls and obsene e-mail.
Cybercrime is on the rise in Singapore .
The number of cases in the first six months of this year is already about two-thirds those committed over the whole of last year. The Head of the CID's Computer Forensic Branch, Assistant Supt. They include three incidents of computer hacking, which he said the police were still investigating. Using other people's e-mail accounts and computer passwords without their permission made up the bulk of the cases so far. Last year, there were 13 hacking cases.