SINGAPORE: A Malaysian man who applied for a job on Facebook wound up working for a transnational syndicate, illegally accessing 17 bank accounts in Singapore.
In total, almost S$4 million (US$3.1 million) flowed through those accounts, of which over S$21,000 was traced to reported scam cases in Singapore.
Tan Kian Hoa, 28, was sentenced to eight months’ jail on Tuesday (Oct 27).
He pleaded guilty to one charge of criminal conspiracy to commit unauthorised computer access under the Computer Misuse Act.
THE CASE
Tan found a job through Facebook in September 2025 and applied for it.
He later chatted with an unidentified person on chat application Telegram and was told he would be paid RM3,500 monthly (S$1,090).
He was told to report for work at an address in Taman Eko Botani, in the city of Iskandar Puteri in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
An online gambling syndicate was stationed there, moving funds originating from gamblers to online casinos and paying out winnings to customers.
The syndicate operated using an in-house computer system called Trustpay, where syndicate members tracked the movement of funds from gambling customers to syndicate accounts.
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