Two Malaysian men have been arrested in Singapore for their suspected involvement in separate government official impersonation scams targeting a woman.
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Police said on Sunday that they received a scam report two days earlier involving the impersonation of government officials claiming to be from the Ministry of Law and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
The victim had received a call from an unknown person claiming to work for a bank. When informed that a credit card had been applied for under her name, she denied it.
The call was then transferred to scammers posing as government representatives. They informed her that she was implicated in a money laundering case.
They presented the victim with fake staff passes and other supporting documents via WhatsApp before instructing her to transfer S$1 million (US$768,000) from one of her bank accounts to her credit card.
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She was then instructed to purchase gold worth over S$412,000 from Mustafa Centre using the same credit card before handing it to an unknown person on the same day.