According to Immigration & Checkpoints Authority members of the public has been receiving calls claiming that their passport applications have been rejected.
Scammers has been coming up with new methods to scam people. Typically this kind of automated calls will get transferred to a scammer who starts to ask personal detail.
Here is what ICA said:
ICA has recently received feedback from members of the public that they have received calls from numbers starting with “+65” relating to passport issues. Some of the calls included an automated voice message informing the recipients that their passport applications have been rejected or their passports have been cancelled.
Other calls involved the alleged scammers asking for the recipients’ personal details, such as their NRIC number.ICA would like to clarify that these calls were not made by our officers. If there is a need to clarify passport matters with applicants, our officers will use landlines (without +65 prefix) to contact them. Members of the public are advised to exercise caution and avoid revealing personal details when they receive unsolicited calls from “+65” numbers about passport issues.
Prevention:
For more information on scams, members of the public can visit www.scamalert.sg or call the Anti-Scam Hotline at 1800-722-6688. Anyone with information on such scams may call the Police Hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.
All information will be kept strictly confidential.