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Two Malaysian men, aged 30 and 40, were arrested on Wednesday (July 29) for their alleged involvement in at least two separate cases of government official impersonation scam.<\/p>\n
In a news release on Wednesday night, the police said the duo were arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint.<\/p>\n
According to the police, the cases, which took place on July 24 and 28 respectively, had similar modus operandi.<\/p>\n
In both cases, the female victims were told by a person claiming to be a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) official that they were implicated in money laundering involving their bank accounts.<\/p>\n
The first victim, acting on the scammer’s instructions, proceeded to hand over $9,000 in cash to an unknown man for the purposes of “investigations”, while the second victim was deceived to hand over gold bars worth over $20,000 and an assortment of valuables worth approximately $10,000.<\/p>\n
Both victims believed that they had handed over their valuables to an “officer” from the authority.<\/p>\n
The two Malaysian men were identified through extensive ground enquiries and follow-up investigations by officers from the police’s Cyber Command<\/a>, with the assistance of the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.<\/p>\n Preliminary investigations revealed that both men had collected the cash and valuables from the victims and handed them over to unknown persons before leaving Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police said they believe that the duo are also involved in several other similar cases.<\/p>\n The two men will be charged in court on Thursday with the offence of assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n If convicted, they may be sentenced to a jail term of up to 10 years, a fine of up to $500,000, or both.<\/p>\n Members of the public are reminded that government officials will never ask anyone to transfer money over the phone or request for banking login details.<\/p>\n Those who require assistance may call the 24\/7 ScamShield helpline at 1799.<\/p>\n [[nid:741072]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Two Malaysian men, aged 30 and 40, were arrested on Wednesday (July 29) for their alleged involvement in at least two separate cases of government…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73020,"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-73019","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\/73019","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=73019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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