Last month, a 41-year-old lady was persuaded by a trickster to enter her personal details and Internet banking credentials on a bogus Singapore Police Force website. She received a call from an unknown number — the person claimed to be a police officer and accused her of her supposed involvement in money laundering activities — and was given a website link to fill in her details for ‘investigation purposes’.
Eventually, the victim realised her Internet banking account showed several unauthorised transactions, but by then, she had lost more than $80,000 to the scam.
Apparently, this fake police website resembles the real one — which, by the way, is www.police.gov.sg — with slight tweaks to the ‘E-Services’ page.
