Youth pleads guilty to cheating friends of their money, which they got by scamming elderly man of S$35,000

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SINGAPORE — A group of young scammers cheated a 77-year-old man of S$35,000 by getting his bank card details and one-time passwords, but ended up turning on each other.

Eventually, another youth who was not part of the group tried to cheat some of them of their lucre and all were nabbed.now aged 20, pleaded guilty in a district court on Tuesday to one charge each of criminal breach of trust and acquiring the benefits of criminal conduct.

Ravivarthan was a student at the Institute of Technical Education College Central at the time of his offences in 2020. He currently works as a delivery courier.The court heard that the elderly victim had responded to a phone call from an unknown person in July 2020. He provided them withShortly after, 15 unauthorised transactions amounting to S$35,350 were made on his card.

Knowing he would receive a commission for his efforts, Rufus agreed to the plan and told Ravivarthan about the whole scheme. The court further heard that Kshan had told Ravivarthan about the original sum of S$10,000 being “dirty” money, and that Ravivarthan has also previously helped Kshan and Mahendra shift S$4,000 in illegal proceeds.

Rufus then asked Ravivarthan to return the money to Kshan. Ravivarthan reassured him he would do so, but continued to pocket the cash.

 

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