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A total of 147 people are under police investigation for allegedly allowing scammers to use their bank accounts to facilitate money-laundering.<\/p>\n
The suspects were identified during an islandwide enforcement operation targeting individuals suspected of perpetrating government officials scams, impersonation scams, investment scams and job scams.<\/p>\n
From June 17 to 30, the Cyber Command’s Anti-Scam Centre (ASC) partnered with local banks to detect and freeze 158 bank accounts linked to scam activities.<\/p>\n
More than $150,000 in suspected scam proceeds were seized, said the police on Wednesday (July 29).<\/p>\n
The police said they also collaborated with social media platforms, messaging-application providers and telecommunications companies to take down 1,123 online enablers and disable 370 phone lines that had been used to support scam operations.<\/p>\n
For assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct in certain circumstances, offenders can be jailed for up to three years, or fined up to $50,000, or both.<\/p>\n
The offence of unauthorized access to computer material carries a jail term of up to two years, or a fine of up to $5,000, or both for first-time offenders.<\/p>\n
Convicted scammers and members or recruiters of scam syndicates will face mandatory caning of between six and 24 strokes.<\/p>\n
Scam mules who enable scammers by laundering scam proceeds, providing SIM cards or Singpass credentials face discretionary caning of up to 12 strokes.<\/p>\n
For more information on scams, members of the public can visit www.scamshield.gov.sg<\/a> or call the ScamShield Helpline at 1799.<\/p>\n Anyone with information on scams may call the Police Hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg\/i-witness<\/a>. All information will be kept strictly confidential.<\/p>\n [[nid:741072]]<\/p>\n lim.kewei@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A total of 147 people are under police investigation for allegedly allowing scammers to use their bank accounts to facilitate money-laundering. The suspects were identified…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72801,"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-72800","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\/72800","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=72800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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