SINGAPORE – A man was charged in court on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in a phishing scam involving Singpass.
Lee Jin An, a 25-year-old Malaysian, and a 33-year-old man, who is still under investigation, were arrested on Sunday after officers from the Commercial Affairs Department mounted an islandwide operation.
According to the charge sheet, Lee had engaged in a conspiracy with a man he knew as Aloysius to cheat Trust Bank using a digital credit card issued to a Chua Li Xian.
Lee will be remanded for four days to assist in investigations. He will return to court on Friday.
The police said on Tuesday that they received several reports between last Thursday and Monday of phishing scams involving Singpass, with losses amounting to more than $21,000.
“In this variant, the victims would receive unsolicited text messages with the sender’s ID containing similarities to Singpass (for example, MySingpass), stating that their Singpass accounts had been or would be deactivated, and that they were required to conduct a facial verification to the account,” said the police.
To complete the verification, recipients would be required to log into their Singpass through a link provided in the text messages.
When victims click on the link, they would be directed to a spoofed Singpass log-in page to key in their Singpass log-in credentials and Singpass one-time passwords received on their phones.
They would realise they had been scammed only after receiving alerts that their…
