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Five people aged between 17 and 29 were arrested on Wednesday (July 1) for their alleged involvement in a job scam syndicate that fraudulently obtained victims’ Singpass accounts.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued on Wednesday night, the police said they received 26 reports from victims between March and May this year.<\/p>\n
The victims had responded to job advertisements via Carousell and were purportedly deceived into providing copies of their NRICs, changing their registered mobile numbers and e-mail addresses linked to their Singpass accounts.<\/p>\n
This allowed the scammers to take control of the victims’ accounts.<\/p>\n
The compromised Singpass accounts were then used to apply for accounts with financial institutions or for mobile phone services without the victims’ knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Control of the victims’ accounts was returned to them on the same day, police said.<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigations revealed that the five suspects had allegedly conspired with a scam syndicate based overseas to procure bank accounts in Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They were purportedly coached to trick victims into surrendering access their Singpass accounts under the guise of a job application.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Anti-Scam Command and Police Intelligence Department identified and arrested the suspects following investigations on July 1.<\/p>\n
Four men aged between 22 and 29 will be charged in court on Thursday with the offence of obtaining another person’s credentials under the Computer Misuse Act.<\/p>\n
The offence carries a penalty of up to three years’ jail, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.<\/p>\n
Police investigations into the 17-year-old female teenager are ongoing.<\/p>\n
Under tougher anti-scam laws that took effect on December 30, 2025, scammers and members or recruiters of scam syndicates<\/a> face mandatory caning of at least six strokes, with a maximum of 24 strokes.<\/p>\n Police warned that individuals linked to scam-related activities may also face restrictions on banking services and mobile line subscriptions under the Facility Restriction Framework.<\/p>\n [[nid:739209]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Five people aged between 17 and 29 were arrested on Wednesday (July 1) for their alleged involvement in a job scam syndicate that fraudulently obtained…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65597,"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-65596","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\/65596","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=65596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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