5 charged with using illegally obtained personal data to register more than 460 prepaid SIM cards

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SINGAPORE: Four men and a woman have been charged over a case where customers\u0027 personal data was illegally used to register more than 460 prepaid SIM cards. One of them, a mobile phone retailer, allegedly used photocopied passports to register the SIM cards. The five accused, who are either mobil

SINGAPORE: Four men and a woman have been charged over a case where customers' personal data was illegally used to register more than 460 prepaid SIM cards.

According to a police statement, their suspected modus operandi was to exploit customers' personal information when they handed over documents to register for prepaid SIM cards. The suspects would then register for additional prepaid SIM cards under Singtel, M1 and StarHub.The four men handed between four and six charges are Bangladeshi national Ershad Uddin Majumder, 38 and Singaporeans Glenn Ng Rong Zhen, 23; Lee Zu Sheng, 27; and Arepu, 40.

In that period, he allegedly used the personal information of those people to register for 57 M1, StarHub and Singtel prepaid SIM cards without their consent. This is because they may be"indirectly facilitating illegal activities such as unlicensed moneylending, scams and vices".

 

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