SINGAPORE - A part-time supermarket cashier copied the bank card details of 34 customers into a notebook and used the information to make 1,011 unauthorised ez-link top-up transactions totalling $41,330.
The 30-year-old Singaporean was sentenced on Tuesday to eight months' jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges under the Computer Misuse Act involving more than $28,000.Deputy Public Prosecutor Ben Mathias Tan said that Qiu was employed by the supermarket in Woodlands Avenue 1 between January and August 2018.
"The accused performed the top-ups by placing the said ez-link cards against which had a 'near field communication' function." A bank operations clerk alerted the police on Dec 11, 2018, saying the bank had received multiple reports from its credit and debit card holders on unauthorised transactions made to an ez-link application.She has since consented for more than $30,000 in her bank account to be applied towards restitution.
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