SINGAPORE – Zack (not his real name) was a 17-year-old student in 2021 receiving $10 a day from his mother when he came across an advertisement in a Telegram group chat that promised payment for opening bank accounts. He contacted the person who posted the ad. Communicating via text messages on Telegram, the man, who identified himself only as J,.
Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of $660.7 million (RM2.239 billion) in 2022, up from US$632 million (RM2.111 billion) in 2021, figures released earlier in 2023 by the police showed.
Scam syndicates frequently resort to recruiting individuals as "money mules" to facilitate the movement of funds within Singapore and beyond, often utilizing bank and Singpass accounts for this purpose.
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