A woman deposited $10k in Lim's account to pay 'Customs-related charges' for gifts bought by a man she met on Instagram. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – She was told by a man she met on Instagram that he had bought her jewellery for her birthday.But two days later, the woman, who had transferred the money to a United Overseas Bank account, made a police report saying she had been cheated.On Wednesday, the owner of the bank account, Danny Lim Kok Tiong, 55, was sentenced to 15 weeks’ jail after heincluding one for cheating the manager of a remittance agency by submitting a false reason for remitting money to a Malaysian bank account.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Bryan Wong said a man named Chung had asked one of Lim’s friends between May and June 2021 with a proposition to receive money in his bank account and to remit the money to Malaysian bank accounts in exchange for a service fee. Chung told Lim to avoid direct online funds transfers and use instead a remittance agency which offered the Pay2Home international money transfer service.At least 130 people lost over $180k to parcel delivery phishing scams in two weeks
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