Phishing scams: Teen who reoffended while on probation ordered to undergo reformative training

The Straits Times2023-02-02

SINGAPORE - A teenager, who was on probation when he took part in money laundering-related activities linked to phishing scams involving OCBC Bank’s customers, was on Thursday ordered to undergo at ...

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He also admitted to an offence under the Organised Crime Act.\nOthers linked to the scams, 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\n\nCheng was earlier convicted of offences including rioting and placed on probation in August 2021.\n\nBut he returned to a life of crime and committed his latest offences from November 2021 to February 2022.\nDeputy Public Prosecutors Jason Chua and Ronnie Ang stated in court documents: “The accused and co-accused persons had worked together as a group to provide money-laundering services to various unknown persons believed to be linked to overseas syndicates, by sourcing for and providing control of bank accounts to these unknown persons.”\nThey added that some of these bank accounts were subsequently used to receive and dissipate funds from the scam victims, while other bank accounts were used to receive and dissipate funds from victims of other scams.\n\n\n\nThe syndicates also told the group to withdraw cash from automated teller machines.\nThe group received instructions from the unknown people, and provided the account credentials of the bank accounts they obtained for the syndicates.\nThey also used multiple chat groups on messaging platform Telegram to communicate with one another.\nThe DPPs added: “(Cheng) was a member of the K2 and Mobile Legends chat groups. 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