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Three people, aged between 25 and 38, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a coordinated scheme that compromised the Singpass accounts of work permit holders.<\/p>\n
Police said in a news release on Friday (Aug 7) night that since early August, at least 23 work permit holders have reported that their Singpass accounts were locked after being approached and offered an $80 cash incentive in exchange for access to their accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some of the victims were purportedly told that their Singpass accounts would be used to purchase National Day Parade (NDP) tickets at a discounted price of $500.<\/p>\n
After they agreed to participate in the scheme, the work permit holders were allegedly instructed to meet the perpetrators at locations such as MRT stations, Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates and construction sites.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, the victims’ work permits were scanned and their Singpass passwords obtained from them.<\/p>\n
The compromised accounts were then used to apply for telco or financial accounts, the police said.<\/p>\n
Officers from the police’s new Cyber Command<\/a> and Clementi Division, supported by the Singpass Trust & Safety team from the Government Technology Agency of Singapore, launched an operation between Aug 5 and 6 to establish the identities of the syndicate members and take enforcement action against them.<\/p>\n The operation resulted in the arrest of the trio, comprising two women aged 29 and 38, as well as one man aged 25. Further investigations identified another 136 foreign workers whose accounts were linked to the fraudulent activity.<\/p>\n In all, the compromised accounts were used to apply for over 30 LiquidPay accounts and more than 1,200 phone lines without the workers’ knowledge.<\/p>\n According to the police, all affected LiquidPay accounts have been frozen, while the fraudulent phone lines terminated.<\/p>\n The trio will be charged in court on Aug 8 with the offence of obtaining the Singpass credential of another person.<\/p>\n If found guilty, they could each be jailed for up to three years, fined up to $10,000, or both.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, investigations into the work permit holders who voluntarily relinquished their Singpass credentials are ongoing.<\/p>\n Members of the public are reminded that it is an offence to disclose one’s Singpass credentials to facilitate an offence.<\/p>\n They are also urged to not accept offers of quick monetary gains in exchange for their Singpass accounts or credentials.<\/p>\n Those who wish to find out if there have been unauthorised phone lines registered to their names can visit SIMCardHowMany (Beta)<\/a> to check for the number of postpaid SIM cards they hold.<\/p>\n [[nid:742019]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Three people, aged between 25 and 38, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a coordinated scheme that compromised the Singpass accounts of work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75272,"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-75271","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\/75271","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=75271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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