During a term of 6months, a man, Wei, 26years-old, created a syndicate of himself and 5 other members to scam EZ-Link of more than $265K.
On 5 February 2021, Wei a Singaporean, was being charged in a district court, receiving a jail term of one year seven months. Wei will serve his jail term beginning on 22 February 2021.
Wei has admitted to unauthorized access to computer material thus, earns benefits from it.
EZ-Link had first lodge a police report in May 2019, stating that there was a sudden increase in bad debts coming from their ‘EZ-Reload’ programs.
Wei and his team had used the system and register more than 100 EZ-Link accounts using the app between Jan 1 and June 14, 2019.
He acquired at least 1,200 EZ-Link cards linking them to the account and used the reload program to top up the cards. He then applied for multiple replacement debit cards from DBS and having at least 160 cards to his name.
Afterward, he asked his team to pass him their DBS card information to apply for replacement cards earning $50-$200 as commissions for each card they managed to get. He managed to acquire another 74 debit cards using this method.
On numerous times, Wei reloaded the cards he had in his possession and stored a value amounting to s$265,800 or more, and converting it to cash through OCBC ATM.
In February 2019, he realized that his OCBC bank account is being frozen and can’t be used anymore, he then uses the cards to buy cigarettes and re-sell them.