SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The public should stay vigilant against scams where impostors pretend to be the Commissioner of Police, who is the highest-ranking police official.
In this scam variant, victims would receive an unsolicited e-mail from a sender pretending to be the Commissioner of Police, said the police in a statement on Dec 28.
The e-mail, the police said, contains a “warning letter” which claims that the police and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore have started investigating the e-mail’s recipients for their involvement in criminal activities.
In that “warning letter”, the police said, victims would be told to submit their written statement to a designated e-mail address. The letter said that failure to do so would have various consequences, such as arrest.
