A 67-year-old retiree in Singapore, referred to as Grace, was scammed out of $1.19 million after being threatened with legal action and told she might be implicated in money laundering. Despite being warned by genuine officers, she remains reluctant to know the full extent of her financial loss.
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.
Grace had been visiting relatives in China when she received a call on the morning of May 15 from someone claiming to be from a bank, who said her card had been used for suspicious transactions. They convinced her she was under investigation for money laundering, and that she would have to check in with them four times a day for the next month through WhatsApp, or risk prosecution.
She returned to Singapore the next day. About a week later, she transferred between $90,001 and $99,999 each time at the behest of the scammers. The scam was picked up only when Mr Poh Leong Hui, an anti-scam unit investigator with OCBC Bank, got suspicious when an OCBC account received a large transfer from a foreign bank account belonging to Grace on June 24. He flagged it to Senior Staff Sergeant Matthew Li, a senior investigation officer at the police’s Anti-Scam Centre, who told Grace she might be a scam victim.
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