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A public member was surprised to receive a call from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) asking if he was interested in becoming a permanent resident or Singapore citizen.
“ICA! Didn’t know you had such services. Staff calling up to ask do I need a PR or citizenship. We have a promotion” said a Facebook page Complaint Singapore member on Friday (Aug 12).
Group members commented on the post, noting the call was most probably a scam.
“ICA will not call people out of a sudden it’s a scam,” said Facebook user Desmond Tan.
“We men in blue have already done a lot of roadshows telling citizens first thing when they get such phone calls or texts of easy money is not to trust not to send any phone OTPs.”
“Just look at it, delete the num, and phone nowadays can block the numbers, so pls guys, if you guys ever come across all this nonsense pls, do not trust, do not pick up and just ignore,” he noted.
It appears that others also receive calls from ICA or the Ministry of Health (MOH). “So irritating..always received MOH or ICA calls… can’t these Ministry depts work on or do something on all these scam calls? The senior or older folks will get scammed one day,” added Facebook user Shirlin Lam.
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