Online shopping scams are surging in Singapore, with Facebook the venue for more than half of them, the city-state’s government has said. The number of such shady deals doubled in 2023 to almost 10,000, after around 4,700 were reported the year before, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The MHA gave Facebook Marketplace the lowest anti-fraud score out of the 6 main e-commerce platforms in use in the country, after the number of con jobs carried out on the Meta-owned platform climbed from 1,138 in 2022 to over 4,500 last year. The ministry gave a 4-tick rating to four providers – …