The Singapore Police Force said in a press release yesterday (9 June) that 8 people were arrested for their suspected involvement in a series of DBS phishing scams.

Here is the police’s statement

The Police have arrested seven men and one woman, aged between 17 and 33, for their suspected involvement in facilitating the conduct of DBS phishing scams.

Between 5 and 8 June 2022, Police received reports that more than 60 victims had fallen prey to DBS phishing scams amounting to a total loss of more than $60,000. These victims had received unsolicited SMSes with tags like “SG-DBS” or “DBS-Notice”, which stated that their card had been blocked due to unusual activities, or that their bank account had been frozen due to suspicious activities. The SMS then directed victims to sign in via an embedded link to verify their identity.

This link redirected victims to a spoofed Internet banking log-in page, where victims would be asked to key in their online banking username and password, and bank card details. After entering the spoofed website, victims would be redirected to another spoofed web page, which would request for them to key in the One-Time Passwords (OTP) received on their mobile phones. This compromised their accounts and allowed scammers to siphon off funds, with victims finding out only later that they had fallen prey to the scam.

Through follow-up investigations and close collaboration with DBS Bank, officers from the Commercial Affairs Department established the beneficiaries of the siphoned-off funds and arrested them in an island-wide operation on 8 June 2022.

The eight persons are being investigated for the offences of cheating or money laundering. The offence of cheating under Section 420 of the Penal Code 1871 carries an imprisonment term of up to 10 years and a fine. The offence of money laundering under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992 carries an imprisonment term not exceeding 10 years, a fine not exceeding $500,000, or both.

The Police take a serious stance against any person who may be involved in scams, and perpetrators will be dealt with in accordance with the law. To avoid being an accomplice to crimes, members of the public should always reject requests by others to use your bank account or mobile lines as you will be held accountable if these are linked to crimes.

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.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
09 June 2022 @ 7:45 PM

A hair salon in Selangor, Malaysia; AJ Hair Studio, took over the headlines during their grand opening after running a promotion of RM1 haircuts (or SGD$0.31) by female hairdressers in revealing tops.

Their business opened for less than a week before the Malaysian police show up at their salon to conduct spot checks.

The grand opening of the salon on 2 June, saw flowers being displayed, a lion dance performance and a white Ferrari with “AJ Hair Studio” on the licence plate being parked outside, as well as a couple of models leaning against the Ferrari.

The opening of the new salon hogged the headlines and went wildly viral after the salon posted photos of their hairdressers in skimpy outfits and revealing tops cutting the customers’ hair.

The Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MBSJ) said in a statement that three MBSJ officers and four Royal Malaysia Police officers visited the premised on 7 June.

They identified two offences at the premises, including operating a health and beauty spa without a valid license, as well as displaying their business signboard without a valid license.

Ajees, the owner of the salon, said during a Facebook live broadcast that his salon doesn’t provide any illegal services or special massages, as suggested by some netizens online.

He appealed to the online community to not share the photos without the correct context, and revealed that the women in the photos were not their actually hairdressers, but his model friends who had come down to support him.

The photos were posted on his own profile to amuse his friends, and he also provided a tour of his salon to show that there were not back rooms for any illicit activities.

He also shared that the police and authorities have been alerted to the viral photos, and he then lodged a police report at a police station.

A netizen shared how a guy had allegedly made his ex-girlfriend pregnant and she then suffered a miscarriage.

They then tried again and the ex-girlfriend then got pregnant again, allegedly telling her he got her pregnant so she can’t leave him.

He then allegedly dumped her and found another girl.

Here is what the netizen said (SIC)

“this guy here made his ex girlfriend pregnant. They had a miscarriage the first time but he made his ex girlfriend pregnant again by saying to her that he did that so that she can go to nobody .

while the girlfriend is pregnant , he left her and found a new girl shown on the picture above .

throughout the pregnancy people had been asking him for money to cover some charge at the hospital and for the baby but $0 had been given .

He kept on promising to pay the girl $200 every month but went missing .

People saw him going out for dates with his current girlfriend but went missing to his own child . He didn’t once met his newborn child and didnt pay for anything up till now .

Hopefully when he saw this post he can stop going missing and pay what he’s supposed to.”

A 75-year-old woman was run over by a tipper truck in Upper Boon Keng Road, and was later pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident happened yesterday (9 June), and the police said they were alerted to the incident at about 3.45pm.

There were more than 10 police officers at the scene near Block 11, and a blue police tent was seen at the scene covering up the dead body.

According to the Straits Times, a taxi driver living nearby, Abdul Salim, told them that he was going back to his car after buying coffee from a coffeeshop nearby.

He added that the accident happened as the truck was driving out., and another driver who witness the accident, was honking repeatedly.

The 46-year-old driver of the tipper truck has also been arrested by the police for careless driving causing death, following the incident.

At the time of writing, the police are investigating the case.