Woman jailed 20 months over using bank accounts to receive proceeds from scams

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Ng Koon Lay, 64, received funds in sums as high as $118,360, which were criminal proceeds from various scams.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - A 64 -year-old woman continued to use her bank accounts to receive funds from people she did not know despite receiving repeated warnings by the Commercial Affairs Department not to do so.

Court documents stated that Ng became acquainted with a person known as"Greg L Johnson" through social media platform Facebook in 2015. While Ng surrendered her Facebook account to CAD after the interview, she set up a second one to keep in contact with Greg, who promised her another loan. Ng also took instructions from another acquaintance, known as"David Bay", whom she met online in 2015.

 

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