{"id":5639,"date":"2025-08-24T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/man-31-to-be-charged-over-mas-official-impersonation-scam\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:35:29","slug":"man-31-to-be-charged-over-mas-official-impersonation-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/man-31-to-be-charged-over-mas-official-impersonation-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 31, to be charged over ‘MAS official’ impersonation scam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Malaysian man, 31, will be charged on Aug 25 over his suspected involvement as a money mule in a scam case involving the impersonation of a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) official.<\/p>\n

The police said in a statement on Aug 24 that the victim, who had filed a police report on Aug 12, was told by a scammer pretending to be an MAS official that he had been implicated in a money laundering investigation.<\/p>\n

The victim was instructed by the scammer to surrender funds for investigative purposes.<\/p>\n

The victim then handed over $50,000 in cash to the 31-year-old man, who acted as a money mule, said the police.<\/p>\n

Officers from the Anti-Scam Command established the man’s identity and arrested him on Aug 24 when he re-entered Singapore.<\/p>\n

Based on preliminary investigations, the man is believed to have been involved in at least four other similar cases.<\/p>\n

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He had allegedly been tasked by unknown persons to collect cash from the scam victims, and had handed the monies over to the unknown persons.<\/p>\n

He will be charged with the offence of assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct. If found guilty, he could be jailed up to 10 years, fined up to $500,000, or both.<\/p>\n

The police also said that government officials will never request members of the public to do the following over the phone: transfer money, disclose bank log-in details and install mobile apps from unofficial app stories.<\/p>\n

Government officials will also never transfer the call to the police.<\/p>\n

In June, at least $6.7 million was lost to government official impersonation scams. Overall, victims in Singapore have lost more than $3.4 billion to scams since 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rhea Yasmine for The Straits Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Man, 31, to be charged over ‘MAS official’ impersonation scam<\/div>\n

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A Malaysian man, 31, will be charged on Aug 25 over his suspected involvement as a money mule in a scam case involving the impersonation of a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) official. The police said in a statement on Aug 24 that the victim, who had filed a police report on Aug 12, was…<\/p>\n

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