ST found at least three Telegram groups asking people to sell their Carousell or Telegram accounts.
SINGAPORE - Offers made by fraudsters in Telegram groups are dangling between $100 and $1,000 for an old Carousell or Telegram account, seemingly to perpetrate a digital masquerade for crime.
On these groups, offers to buy access to such accounts compete with a flurry of illegal moneylending jobs andMore cash is offered for “verified, old and reputable” Carousell accounts and Telegram accounts with premium features, a subscription service that users have to pay for. These victims were tricked into keying in their bank credentials, credit card details and one-time passwords, thinking that they were collecting payment from scammers.
Among the company’s suite of safeguards against malicious and suspicious cyber activities is requiring suspected scammers to verify their identities using Singpass. Regardless of the e-commerce platform targeted, the bottom line is that fraudsters use these accounts to avoid using their own personal details to “do the dirty work”, said Invictus Law director Cory Wong.
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