Woman's fear of being linked to the $3b money laundering case led her to fall for the govt official impersonation scam.
OCBC anti-scam unit investigator Poh Leong Hui had alerted senior investigating officer Matthew Li when he noticed a large transfer from a foreign back account belonging to the victim.
The call was transferred to someone claiming to be a police officer, who told Grace to move away from her family to discuss confidential matters and to not tell them anything. She panicked when she thought of the $3 billion money laundering case. She said: “Because of that, I became quite worried and didn’t want to be involved.”How did S’pore end up needing ‘nanny’ laws to save scam victims from themselves?
The scammers had convinced her that the five-digit numbers she was keying into her banking app were “verification codes” that always began with a nine. She did not know the “verification codes” were actually the amount of money she was sending them. She met him at the Police Cantonment Complex four days later, and her case was classified as a government official impersonation scam.
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