SINGAPORE - Two men fell victim to scammers impersonating government officials in China who duped them into revealing personal information and their family background, and caused one of them to lose about $63,000. The police said on Thursday that the victims, aged 22 and...
Separately, the scammer alleged that the authorities had detected a parcel with prohibited items in Singapore registered under the victim’s name.
The victim in the first case, which began in March, was asked to post bail of $15,000 or face his arrest and extradition to China for criminal charges. The victims were shown fake Chinese documents alleging that they had been involved in crimes. PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE The scammers contacted the victim on April 27, this time asking him to write a promissory note agreeing to an online gambling debt of 2.58 million yuan. He was asked to send a selfie together with the note and his China identity card to them.
In the second case, which began in April, the victim was similarly asked to post bail of one million yuan to avoid being arrested and extradited to China for criminal charges.The scammers manipulated him into providing his ID on messaging application WeChat and used it to communicate with his parents in China to demand payment of 100,000 yuan for a gambling debt that the scammers claimed their son had incurred.Scammers communicated with the victims’ parents in chat messages.
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