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A 26-year-old Malaysian man will be charged in court on Saturday (May 23) over his alleged role in a scam involving impersonation of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) officers.<\/p>\n
Following his arrest on Friday, the number of Malaysians caught in Singapore for allegedly helping scam syndicates to collect cash and valuables since March this year now stands at 27.<\/p>\n
On May 21, a 34-year-old Malaysian woman was charged for assisting a crime syndicate to collect cash amounting to $13,700 and gold<\/a> from a female victim.<\/p>\n Police said they received a report on May 19 from a 61-year-old female victim who had received a call from an unknown person claiming to be from YouTrip on May 13.<\/p>\n The victim was told that her account was involved in a money laundering investigation, and she was instructed to contact a purported MAS officer for further details.<\/p>\n Similar to cases reported earlier, the victim was accused of being involved in crime and asked to declare all her assets \u2014 by handing over cash amounting to $45,000 to the purported MAS officer in Pasir Ris on May 14 \u2014 as a signal of cooperation with the investigation.<\/p>\n She was also shown a fake copy of her YouTrip statement, along with a fake Court Order and threatened with arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police said they arrested the man on Friday through follow-up investigations by officers from the Anti-Scam Command.<\/p>\n Preliminary investigations revealed that the man was tasked by unknown individuals, believed to be part of a transnational crime syndicate, to collect cash and valuables from the victim.<\/p>\n If found guilty of assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct, the suspect could be jailed for up to 10 years, fined up to $500,000, or both.<\/p>\n Members of the public are also reminded that government officials will never ask anyone to transfer money over the phone, request bank details, transfer a call to the police, or instruct anyone to install mobile apps from unofficial app stores.\u00a0<\/p>\n If in doubt, they may call the 24\/7 ScamShield Helpline at 1799.\u00a0<\/p>\n [[nid:736481]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 26-year-old Malaysian man will be charged in court on Saturday (May 23) over his alleged role in a scam involving impersonation of Monetary Authority…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Modus operandi: Money laundering investigation<\/h2>\n
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