The Singapore Police Force’s (SPF) Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and the Royal Malaysia Police’s (RMP) Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) have brought down two transnational employment fraud syndicates located in Johor and Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia.
An increasing number of victims reported the incident to the Police since May 2021, the job would often be advertised through social media or chat apps that offer “fast cash” or “quick cash” jobs.
The targeted Singapore & Malaysian victims were told to complete certain tasks such as liking Youtube or TikTok videos in exchange for an amount of money.
The victim would then be offered to upgrade their “membership” to yield higher commission rates by paying for goods.
The highly orchestrated scam would convince the victims by really paying them the commissions in order to draw the victims deeper into the scam. They will soon be offered even high comm rates where the victims were told to transfer larger amounts of money, but after transferring larger sums to the scammers they would “disappear”.
SPF & RMP worked together which lead to the arrest of 10 Malaysians between the ages of 21 and 32 from Johor and KL.
Singapore Police Force reported that at least 390 victims were from Singapore which amount to around $5million.
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