10 arrested for fraudulently registering prepaid SIM cards after raids at handphone shops

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The retailers would purportedly preregister SIM cards using particulars of others and sell them to customers who wanted to remain anonymous.

Simultaneous raids targeting 17 handphone shops were conducted in a nine-hour islandwide operation on Sunday .

Nine men and one woman, aged between 31 and 56, were arrested for their suspected involvement in fraudulently registering prepaid SIM cards using the particulars of unsuspecting customers or foreigners who have not entered or have left Singapore."Investigations revealed that these handphone retailers had abused the computer systems holding the registration information for prepaid SIM cards," said the police.

An assortment of paraphernalia such as printers, laptops, handphones, invoices, photocopied passports, SIM cards and relevant documents were seized during the operation.

 

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