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Four persons, aged between 26 and 38, will be charged in court on Saturday (June 6) for their alleged involvement in fraudulently registering SIM cards that facilitated criminal activities.<\/p>\n
Police said in a news release on Friday night that the individuals, comprising two men and two women, were arrested during an enforcement operation in Tuas on June 4.<\/p>\n
The operation targeted errant retailers who were allegedly engaged in the registration of postpaid SIM cards that were subsequently used by overseas syndicates in crime.<\/p>\n
According to the police, the 34-year-old man and two women had allegedly used the information of actual customers to pre-register for additional postpaid SIM cards. The mobile lines that were registered were subsequently used in impersonation scams.<\/p>\n
The fourth person, a 26-year-old man was allegedly being taught how to do so.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, investigations against another three men, aged between 30 and 65, are ongoing.<\/p>\n
Those convicted of facilitating the fraudulent registration of SIM cards that facilitate criminal activity will face a fine of up to $10,000, jail of up to three years, or both.<\/p>\n
Scammers and members or recruiters of scam syndicates also face mandatory caning of at least six strokes<\/a> if convicted. Those who enable scammers by laundering scam proceeds face discretionary caning.<\/p>\n Those involved in mule-related offences may also face restrictions on banking services and mobile line subscriptions.<\/p>\n The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the police have also implemented stricter measures on postpaid SIM cards to prevent illicit use.<\/p>\n As of Feb 28, an individual can only register up to 10 postpaid SIM cards<\/a> across all telcos in Singapore.<\/p>\n Those who wish to check if there are any postpaid SIM card registrations to their name may use IMDA’s web form<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The police also urged members of the public to call its hotline at 1800-255-0000<\/a> or make a report at www.police.gov.sg\/i-witness if they suspect or know of anyone who could be involved in the registration of SIM cards for illicit purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n [[nid:736657]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Four persons, aged between 26 and 38, will be charged in court on Saturday (June 6) for their alleged involvement in fraudulently registering SIM cards…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58725,"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-58724","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\/58724","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=58724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to check if your information was fraudulently used<\/h2>\n
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