Anti-Scam Centre, banks prevent 82-year-old from losing $3.7m

Anti-Scam Centre officers and police intervened and arrested a 20-year-old man for his suspected involvement in a government officials impersonation scam case.An elderly man was targeted in three scam attempts over two months and would have lost a total of S$3.7 million, if not for the swift intervention of the police and his banks.

The police said on March 19 that in the first case, several transactions in the victim’s bank account totalling $2.1 million were detected by CIMB’s fraud management team on Feb 6. Subsequently, $1.3 million was recovered, but $800,000 was lost to scammers and sent overseas before a police report was filed.

ASC officers and police officers from the Central Police Division intervened and arrested a 20-year-old man for his suspected involvement in a government officials impersonation scam case.Preliminary investigations showed that the man arrested had impersonated a police officer from China, and accompanied the victim to the CIMB branch where he demanded that the victim purchase the cashier’s order.

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