Girl was 16 when she helped foreign scam syndicates as ATM runner

The Straits Times2023-01-30

SINGAPORE - An 18-year-old girl on Monday admitted to her role in a money laundering operation linked to phishing scams, with the teenager and several others helping to funnel about $600,000 through ...

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She was paid about $1,000 for her efforts.”\n\nShe was one of several people charged in 2022 over their alleged links to the phishing scams, which led to victims losing some $12.8 million. \nSome of the offenders, including Mark Teo Sin Yan, 32, and Leong Jun Xian, then 21, were dealt with in court earlier.\nThe cases involving several others, including Kong Jia Quan and Muhammad Khairuddin Eskandariah, both 20, are pending.\n\n\n\nDPPs Chua and Ronnie Ang said in court documents that the girl and other accused persons had sourced for and provided control of bank accounts to members of crime syndicates believed to be based overseas.\nThey opened bank accounts and gave the syndicates the account credentials.\n“Some of these bank accounts were subsequently used to receive and dissipate funds from the (scams involving OCBC customers), while other bank accounts were used to receive and dissipate funds from victims of other scams,” the prosecutors added.\nThe syndicates also told the group to withdraw cash from ATMs, by giving them instructions on messaging platform Telegram. \nThe girl, who opened a DBS bank account with her Singpass details, was a member of three Telegram chat groups used by the offenders.\nIn all, the group provided at least 16 bank accounts to the syndicates in the Telegram group chats between December 2021 and February 2022, receiving nearly $600,000 from different scams, including those involving OCBC customers.\n\n\n\n\n\nMore On This Topic\n\n \n\nPhishing scams involving OCBC customers: Teen reoffended while on probation\n\n\n\n \n\nOCBC phishing scams: Youth committed crimes linked to money laundering while out on bail\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetween Dec 8, 2021, and Jan 19, 2022, the police received 768 reports from OCBC bank account holders who had fallen prey to phishing scams.\nOCBC said in January 2022 that it had made full goodwill payouts to all victims.\nThe girl, who pleaded guilty to giving a false statement, had lied to the police on Dec 30, 2021, when she claimed that she had withdrawn cash on behalf of a fictitious person named “firewin888”, whom she said reached out to her on Telegram.\nClaiming that she had been threatened by firewin888, she said the cash was kept in a red paper bag which was  placed outside her home for collection by the Telegram user.\nAs a result of the false statement, officers from both the Criminal Investigation Department and Yishun North Neighbourhood Police Centre were diverted to review footage from devices such as police cameras around her estate to try to spot a person carrying a red paper bag.\nAs the statement was false, the police were unable to find anyone carrying a red paper bag, and they had to interview the girl again. \nShe is expected to be sentenced on Feb 13.\n\n\n\n\n\nMore On This Topic\n\n \n\n13-year-old among 106 individuals probed for suspected illegal moneylending activities\n\n\n\n \n\nMan jailed 10 months for role in scam that used voicemails to gain access to WhatsApp accounts","kind":null,"is_publish_news":null,"is_publish_highlight":null,"is_publish_live":null,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.22.4","shortVersion":"4.22.4","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2307204726"}