SINGAPORE \u2013 A 27-year-old Malaysian man is slated to be charged on May 30 for his suspected involvement in a government official impersonation scam, after he allegedly helped scam syndicates collect cash and valuables from victims here.<\/p>\n
The police on May 29 said that they received a report the previous day from a victim who answered a call about a television purchase from an unknown person claiming to be from Harvey Norman Singapore.<\/p>\n
When the victim denied making such a purchase, her call was transferred to another scammer posing as an official from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).<\/p>\n
The fake official told the victim that she had been involved in money-laundering activities.<\/p>\n
He pretended to assist with investigations and then instructed the victim to meet a man near Anchorvale Crescent and hand over all her jewellery.<\/p>\n
The victim made a police report after she realised she had been scammed. Following investigations, officers from the Anti-Scam Command identified and arrested the man on the same day.<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigation found that he was tasked to collect and hand over valuables or cash from scam victims by individuals believed to be members of a transnational scam syndicate.<\/p>\n
The man will be charged with abetment by conspiracy to assist another person to retain the benefits from criminal conduct. If convicted, he faces a jail term of up to 10 years, a fine of up to $500,000, or both.<\/p>\n
He is the 30th Malaysian to be arrested here for helping scam syndicates collect cash and valuables since March.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n The police said they are seeing more Malaysians travelling to Singapore for such activities.<\/p>\n They advised the public not to hand over cash or valuables to unknown people or to leave them at a location to facilitate further collection.<\/p>\n Device screens or log-in credentials should not be shared with unknown people as well, they added.<\/p>\n Those who have information about such crimes or have doubts can call the police hotline on 1800-255-000, or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg\/i-witness<\/p>\n All information will be kept strictly confidential, the police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 27-year-old Malaysian man is slated to be charged on May 30 for his suspected involvement in a government official impersonation scam, after…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31993,"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-56361","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\/56361","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=56361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/picture><\/div>\n
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