Jail for credit card fraudster who bought S$65,000 worth of Universal Studios Singapore tickets

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SINGAPORE: A man who committed credit card fraud to buy over S$65,000 (US$47,000) worth of tickets to Universal Studios Singapore (USS) was jailed for four years, four months and four weeks on Friday ...

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During these trips, he would go to USS and inform the Telegram group when he was there.\nNai would then be given a 10-digit code to get in touch with an unknown individual through a phone app called VooV Meeting.\nThe contact would tell Nai how many USS tickets to buy, and send tokenised credit cards to the Apple Pay app on his phone.\nNai would buy the requested number of tickets and pay with Apple Pay. If the payment was declined, new tokenised credit cards would be sent to his Apple Pay.\nAfter collecting the physical USS tickets, Nai would receive payment from Da Sheng for each trip to Singapore.\nHe made RM6,000 (US$1,300) from his involvement in the scheme.\nThe fraudulent purchases in the 17 proceeded charges took place in October 2024. They amounted to S$65,487 for nearly 800 USS tickets.\nNai suspected that the credit card details he received on Apple Pay were illicitly obtained, Deputy Public Prosecutor Lu Huiyi said.\nShe asked for a jail term of around four years and five months, arguing that the fraud was complex and coordinated, and entailed multiple layers of communication.\nWhile Nai was not the mastermind of the scheme, he played an active role in coming to Singapore to buy the tickets, and was paid for doing so, she said.\nMs Lu also highlighted the international dimension of Nai's offences as an aggravating factor.\nNai, who did not have a lawyer, choked up and appeared teary as he addressed the court through video link from his place of remand.\nHe said that he was remorseful and hoped his actions did not result in major repercussions.\nHe said that he had two children with his wife, who was now supporting them on her own. Her health was failing and Nai said he did not know how much longer she could \"hang on\".\nHe asked the judge for a lighter sentence so that he could be reunited with his family.\nDistrict Judge Wong Peck noted that Nai faced many charges, and said that the sentence proposed by the prosecution was fair and proportionate.\nThe offence of cheating is punishable with up to 10 years in jail and a fine. 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