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SINGAPORE \u2013 Four men are set to be charged on July 29 for their suspected roles in providing a modified Foodpanda app to foreigners so that the foreigners could take on food delivery jobs illegally.<\/p>\n
The police said in a statement on July 28 that they arrested the men, aged between 28 and 45, after acting on information from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).<\/p>\n
The modified application allowed foreigners to bypass real-time verification checks by uploading a photo of the account owner instead of taking a real-time selfie to log on to the platform.<\/p>\n
This allowed unauthorised foreign users to impersonate actual account owners and operate accounts that did not belong to them for illegal work.<\/p>\n
These foreign unauthorised users were found to have paid fees of between $50 and $120 per week to use the modified application.<\/p>\n
They were also given instructions on how to install and use the modified application to impersonate the actual account owner and accept job assignments via the food delivery platform.<\/p>\n
The four men will be charged with the offence of access with intent to commit cheating under the Computer Misuse Act and the Penal Code.<\/p>\n
If found guilty, they could each face a jail term of up to 10 years, a fine of up to $50,000, or both.<\/p>\n
In Singapore, it is illegal for foreigners to enter into platform work arrangements with platform operators, or to impersonate local platform workers and perform work using their accounts.<\/p>\n
According to the police, MOM will also be investigating foreigners who worked illegally as platform workers for offences under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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