If you use Google to find Simba's top-up page, the first link you see might not be Simba's. Police said on 21 October 2026 that a fake Simba website scam has cost victims at least $83,000 across at least 62 cases since March. The fake sites showed up among the top sponsored results. Victims typed in their card details and later found card charges they hadn't made. Here's how the scam works, how to tell the real top-up page from a fake, and what to do if you've already paid.
The Singapore Police Force set out the steps in its advisory on 21 October.
Simba's real top-up address is https://topup.simba.sg. Police said the fake sites use different domain extensions, the letters after the last dot in an address.
Look at how the fakes are built. Five of the six that police named start with simba.sg, then add a hyphen and words like recharge or topup. So the address ends somewhere else entirely.
| Fake address | Ends in |
|---|---|
| simba-sg.asia | .asia |
| simba.sg-fastrecharge.shop | .shop |
| simba.sg-topup.icu | .icu |
| simba.sg-recharge.life | .life |
| simba.sg-recharge.cfd | .cfd |
| simba.sg-recharge.cyou | .cyou |
Police flagged these in their advisory.
Call your bank straight away. Police say to report the fraudulent transactions and have them blocked. ScamShield says your bank can act at once to stop further losses.
Then lodge a police report. ScamShield lists these ways to report a scam and get help: file a report online or at a Neighbourhood Police Centre or Post, call the Police Hotline on 1800-255-0000, or call 999 for urgent help.
Police also ask you to tell your family and friends about scams like this one.
| Who | How |
|---|---|
| Your bank | Call its anti-scam hotline to report and block the transactions |
| Police report | File one online, or at a Neighbourhood Police Centre or Post |
| Police Hotline | 1800-255-0000, or the I-Witness e-Service online |
| Urgent help | Call 999 |
| ScamShield Helpline | 1799, 24/7, if you're not sure something is a scam |
Police suggest three settings for your bank and online accounts. Turn on two-factor or multi-factor authentication. Set a limit on internet banking transactions. Add a Money Lock, which police say protects part of your bank savings from scams.
Police also say never to share your personal details, card details or OTPs with anyone. For top-ups, they suggest a saved bookmark or typing the address in yourself, so you don't pick from the search results at all.
Our guide to the Shared Responsibility Framework for phishing scams explains how the rules on phishing losses work. Our guides to the hotel booking scam and the fake MAS officer scam walk through two other scams police have warned about this year.
Police named https://topup.simba.sg as Simba's real address for top-ups. The fake sites they've found so far use other endings, such as .asia, .shop, .icu, .life, .cfd and .cyou.
Police said on 21 October 2026 that at least 62 cases had been reported since March 2026, with losses of at least $83,000 between them.
Call the ScamShield Helpline at 1799, which runs 24/7. Police also point the public to scamshield.gov.sg for more information on scams.
Police said on 26 August that $410.6 million was lost to scams from January to June 2026, down from $500.2 million in the same months of 2025. Scams are still the main type of crime in Singapore, police said.
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