Between 15 April 2025 and 13 May 2025, officers from the Singapore Police Force’s Anti-Scam Command (ASC) and Police Land Divisions’ Scam Strike Teams, and participating local banks conducted an island-wide operation targeting government official impersonation scams, investment scams and job scams.
During the operation, officers from the ASC worked closely with local banks, freezing over 400 bank accounts and seized about S$1.9 million in suspected scam proceeds. Concurrently, officers from the Police Land Divisions’ Scam Strike Teams carried out raids across Singapore to locate those suspected of relinquishing their bank accounts to scammers for use in money laundering activities. Seven men and two women, aged between 18 and 33, were arrested, with another 33 persons being investigated. Through close collaboration with major industry stakeholders, such as social media companies, messaging platforms, and telecommunications companies (for telco line reporting), the Police also managed to disrupt more than 900 online enablers and terminate more than 806 phone lines that were used in the scams.
The 42 persons are believed to be involved in more than 200 cases of scams, comprising mainly job scams, investment scams and government official impersonation scams.
Investigations are ongoing into offences under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992, and Computer Misuse Act 1993. The offence of assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct in certain circumstances under Section 55A(1) of the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992 carries an imprisonment term of up to three years, a fine of up to $50,000, or both. For first-time offenders the offence of unauthorised access to computer material under Section 3(1) of the Computer Misuse Act 1993 carries an imprisonment term of up to two years, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.
The Police take a serious stance against any person who may be involved in scams, and perpetrators will be dealt with in accordance with the law. To avoid being an accomplice to criminal activities, members of the public should always reject requests by others to use their SingPass credentials, bank accounts or mobile lines as you will be held accountable for their misuse.
For more information on scams, members of the public can visit www.scamshield.gov.sg or call the ScamShield Helpline at 1799. Fighting scams is a community effort. Together, we can ACT Against Scams to safeguard our community!
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SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
29 May 2025 @ 10:45 AM