SINGAPORE: The police charged 10 men on Tuesday (Dec 9) over their suspected involvement in a series of unauthorised attempts to change registered residential addresses through an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s (ICA) e-service.
The case was first made public by ICA on Jan 11, after it discovered about 80 cases of unauthorised attempts to change registered residential addresses via an “others” option – which allows the change of address by a proxy – available on the online service.
The charges laid against the 10 men – aged between 17 and 32 – bring the total number of people charged in connection to the case so far to 14, said the police and ICA in a joint news release on Tuesday.
“Investigations by the police and ICA have revealed a criminal network that allegedly intercepted ICA PIN mailers, which were then used to change the registered residential addresses of their victims,” said the authorities.
“The criminal network had allegedly done this in order to receive Singpass password reset mailers, which enabled them to take over the victims’ Singpass accounts.”
