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A 33-year-old Malaysian man will be charged in court on Saturday (Oct 10) for his alleged involvement in a case of government official impersonation scam.<\/p>\n
Police said in a news release on Saturday that they received a report from a 61-year-old victim on Thursday.<\/p>\n
According to the victim, she had received a call from an unknown individual claiming to be from DBS bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was purportedly informed that an unauthorised transaction was made from her bank account, and was instructed to contact a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer.<\/p>\n
The victim subsequently called a Singapore-registered mobile number provided by the ‘bank staff’ and spoke with a person who claimed to be an officer of the bureau.<\/p>\n
The ‘officer’ informed her that her bank account was under investigation, and instructed her to hand over her valuables to assist with investigations.<\/p>\n
This is similar to many other impersonation scams, where scammers would ask victims to hand over cash and\/or valuables for the purpose of investigations.<\/p>\n
Most recently, two victims also fell prey<\/a> to this variant of scam.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the female victim believed the request to be legitimate and went on to hand over gold jewellery and other valuables worth about $10,000 to a male person on the same day.<\/p>\n She later lodged a police report after realising that she had been scammed.<\/p>\n The 33-year-old was identified by officers from the police’s Cyber Command through follow-up investigations and with assistance from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and Police Operations Command Centre.<\/p>\n He was arrested within six hours of the report being made.<\/p>\n Police said their preliminary investigations revealed that the man had been tasked by unknown individuals, believed to be members of a transnational scam syndicate, to collect valuables or cash from scam victims and hand them over to other unknown individuals.<\/p>\n He will be charged in court on Saturday with the offence of assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct.<\/p>\n If found guilty of the said offence, the Malaysian man could be fined up to $500,000, jailed for up to 10 years, or both.<\/p>\n Members of the public are reminded that government officials will never ask any one to transfer money and cryptocurrency, or hand over luxury watches and gold over the phone.<\/p>\n They will also not ask for personal information such as banking login details.<\/p>\n Those who require more information may call the 24\/7 ScamShield helpline at 1799.<\/p>\n [[nid:747112]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 33-year-old Malaysian man will be charged in court on Saturday (Oct 10) for his alleged involvement in a case of government official impersonation scam….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91921,"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-91920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91920","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=91920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Transnational scam syndicate<\/h2>\n
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