Telephone fraud involving Supreme Court and CID
This involves people staying in Singapore please.
I don’t know if I’m just suay or what.
Everytime someone decides to call my house, I’m sleeping and in that state, I’m virtually dysfunctional.
So this morning (when I’m sleeping) there was an automated call in MANDARIN saying that they are calling from the Supreme Court, press “9″ to verify. Someone would pick up the call. And might I add that they speak Mandarin and/or heavily-accented english.
They would ask for your name and IC number in order to verify the case (which at this point SHOULD already be suspicious but I was sleeping, so please forgive me.).
They would read out a case and tell you they do not have any more information other than that, but they can get the CID to call you back regarding the case. And the supposed CID officer is Khoo Boon Hui. People who know, should realise that he’s the High Commissioner of the Police Force, I don’t suppose that he would make calls like that or god forbid, TALK to people from a common case like this.
So “Mr Khoo” read me my case, saying that my a/c has been involved in a money laundering case by loan sharks and would require my assistance charge me. He even had a whole story of how they might have operated and 3scenerios of what could’ve happened and that it could be an inside job of bank staff selling information to the loansharks blah blah blah….
He said now that he’s got the picture clear regarding my case, he would get someone from the court to call me back.
Which they did.
This time again, someone who speaks Mandarin.
Unfortunately, I have already started to wake up.
I told them, I wanted to speak to someone who speaks english. Someone else called back 2mins later, who spoke really bad english again.
Telling me that she has already gotten the information (WOW, they must be 2desks apart.) and they would have to do a voice recording in order to release me from charges blah blah blah… I told her I’m not comfortable (not because I hate my voice kthxbye.) and that I would prefer to do it in person if that is the case. I told her i’m very free today (hahahhaha~). She said she had 526 other people to refer to (which “Mr Khoo” said the same thing about, they must be really 1 desk apart then.) and that IF I do not make the voice recording now and choose to ignore my case, they would close my bank account and withdraw all my funds (wooo~ *pees in pants*) and that I would not be able to do anything about.
I told her I’d call her back (btw she said she was Khong Foong Yee) and i asked for her direct line. She gave me “6 338 1034″ which was the court’s GENERAL ENQUIRY LINE (but hey, they are convincing aren’t they?)
She sounded really pissed when I said I’d call her back… I suppose “Miss Foong” missed her lunch hour break and did not earn money from me.
I went to the police and apparently they had a few people walk in today with the same case. Just 3 mins after sitting down, there was another couple behind me reporting the same fraud case.
The fact that they spoke in Mandarin means that obviously would like to con the older and more ignorant residents living in my area. I called my mum afterwards to tell her about it and thank god that it was I who picked up the phone instead of her.
So please forward this around to prevent people from being conned and tell your parents about it okay?
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Chuang Shyue Chou responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2007 at 5:01 pm →
Yikes! Scary! I haven’t encountered this but I have encountered people claiming to call from an investment company from either Hong Kong or Tokyo wanting me to buy some ‘hot stocks’.
hucks responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2007 at 5:39 pm →
erm, you have been tomorrow-ed, FYI!
Mindyt responds:
Posted: November 1st, 2007 at 6:01 pm →
H minicloud, I’m a reporter and I wish to write a story about this current phone scam. Am wondering if you are willing to be interviewed? I left my email address, thanks
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ra responds:
Posted: November 2nd, 2007 at 9:26 am →
thanks for the detailed post! shall forward your blog link to my familiy and friends!
datsit42day responds:
Posted: November 2nd, 2007 at 9:36 am →
yes, it is a scam, it has been reported in the papers before.
mishmash responds:
Posted: November 2nd, 2007 at 11:47 am →
Think I received this call on my office line.
Received an automated call in Mandarin, and me being an ABC, hung up.
hahahah
HeavyGod responds:
Posted: November 27th, 2007 at 4:43 pm →
Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe
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Good luck and successes in blogging!
squiggly responds:
Posted: November 27th, 2007 at 9:47 pm →
Hi i’ve received a similar call today. The person also asked for my IC and name so that they can verify if i’ve gt a court case. But I was suspicious cuz it really doesnt sound very professional as they spoke in their china-like Mandarin. So i didnt give my number.
Then i searched the web n found yr post. Thanks for blogging it! I was quite paranoid.. duno if the pressing of the ‘9′ will result in the hacking of my account hahaah…
Jb responds:
Posted: November 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pm →
I received a similar call today but they spoke in CLEAR ENGLISH instead of mandarin, foolishly gave them my name and i/c no. but never received another call. They said i have no case pending probably having something to do with me being only 18 (below 21).
viv responds:
Posted: November 30th, 2007 at 9:23 pm →
I received the same call as yours in the early morning and as blur I also gave my name and IC. As i am still sleeping so sounded quite impatient. After some details from her, she said would fax my particular to the CID officer and would call me back. But never receive till now. I was very worried after i hung up as I thought maybe they would borrow money from loanshark. After your blog, I guess i can be at ease. Thanks.
Zhi responds:
Posted: December 6th, 2007 at 11:04 am →
I just received a call. Exactly like yours. This morning at about 10:57am. I called C.A.D as per http://app.supremecourt.gov.sg/data/doc/ManageHighlights/1046/police%20advisory.pdf but the Duty Officer called me back and she told me that since a crime has not been committed, they will take it as a form of information. She said that the local police..for example Bedok Police Station would be the ones investigating if there is a case. Sigh.
ang responds:
Posted: December 10th, 2007 at 4:18 pm →
My wife received this scam call few days ago and was about to rush to chinatown
to transaction $10k , but luckily thought something was amiss and she called 999.
What a relief. After that , she went crazy , fearing that her bank account ’s money can be extracted by these criminals when she didnt even gave them the bank a/c no.
I think crimewatch should report on this cos not everybody would have internet access and have read about such cases in the newspaper/ news online
Lee responds:
Posted: March 30th, 2008 at 1:43 am →
I received a similar call on Fri. Looks like the group is still active. The guy was asking a lot of questions, but didn’t get around to asking for my NRIC.
I think the real CID should start to crack down on the case.
Seng Lee responds:
Posted: April 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am →
Hi, Me too just received this similiar call. This time the CID is called Yeo Kee Cheong. I asked for his I/C and gave me SD0017002. I asked him if this is a local I/C number, he can even say that SD = Singapore Detective!!! Oh My God!
I tried to get his contact number and he die die don’t wanna give and say that he said that he will send policeman to my house.. (G_G).
I am relief that this is a scam after finding this post
.
When you suspect something amiss, don’t give it a chance.
BTW, they don’t sound like locals, how can people working there speaks english in such a way that you can hardly understand!