7 youths aged 19 to 22 charged over recent OCBC phishing scams; 6 others under probe
The police seized an array of mobile devices, bank cards, SIM cards, cash amounting to S$2,760 and two Rolex watches, worth a total of S$35,600, from the suspects.
The police have arrested nine men and four women, aged between 19 and 22, for their alleged involvement in a spate of high-profile phishing scams involving OCBC Bank between December last year and January.
In a news release on Sunday (Feb 20) evening, the police said that seven men among those nabbed were charged in court on Friday. The scams had hit 790 OCBC customers who lost a total of S$13.7 million to the scammers.
The police said they had been closely monitoring reports of the phishing scams and identified the 13 suspects through “thorough investigations and extensive probes”. They were arrested in an islandwide operation on Feb 16 and 17.
An array of mobile devices, bank cards, SIM cards, S$2,760 in cash and two Rolex watches — worth S$35,600 in total — were seized.
The seven men, all Singaporeans, hauled to court each face a charge of helping another to retain the benefits of criminal conduct, under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act. They are:
- Brayden Cheng Ming Yan, 19
- Kong Jia Quan, 19
- Jovan Soh Jun Yan, 19
- Roy Peh Yong Rong, 19
- Muhammad Khairuddin Eskandariah, 20
- Lim Kai Ze, 21
- Leong Jun Xian, 21
