Nurashikeen Sinin was a branch supervisor at Bank Negara Indonesia (Singapore Branch) who became a victim of a scam.
She was faced with personal debts of over SGD$83,000 and tried to secure a loan from moneylenders who turn out to be scammers.
She transferred $628,000 from the bank she was working at to the scammers.
Her job as a supervisor empowered her to take control of the money and was in charge of putting the money into the bank’s vault. The City Plaza bank tellers would entrust her with the cash each day.
While she was stressed with the debt she was facing, she searched online for a money lending service, and little that she knows that it was a scammer’s website. After she contacted the “money lending” website she was contacted via Whatsapp and she was given instructions to pay an admin fee of $2,500 for the loan.
She was then contacted multiple times to transfer a few thousand dollars at a time for different kinds of “fees”.
The scammers even send her fake documents from other banks and she continued to transfer more and more to the scammers until the amount reached $735,000.
38-year-old Nurashikeen was jailed four years after she pleaded guilty to one count of criminal breach of trust.