COPIED AND PASTED FROM A MASS EMAIL I
RECEIVED.
http://www.spf.gov.sg/mic/2007/071018_supcourtphonescam.htm
24/10/2007.About noon time, there is an incoming call to my
office
direct line. When I pick up the call, it was a voice recorded
message
that said, 'You have a message from the Supreme Court. Press 9
to
listen to the message.' I pressed 9 and it was transferred to
an
operator that answered by saying, 'Supreme Court reception, can I
help
you?' I told her I received a voice message from Supreme Court
telling
me to press 9 to listen to that message. She proceeds to ask me for
my
name and I/C number. So I told her and it sounded like as it she
is
keying in and paused awhile and told me I had a notice from
Supreme
Court with a charge of working with 'Ah long' (Illegal Loan sharks)
to
open 2 bank accounts for them and the Supreme Court had already
sent
me Court summon letter to me. I was so shocked and told her I did
not
know any loan sharks and I will never do that and I did not
receive
any letter from Court at all. She told me for that I'm one of
the
person who is involved in this illegal act and if I want to verify
my
case, she would get the CID police in charge of this case to call
me.
In less than a few minutes, I received a call from someone who
claimed
to be a CID officer looking for me. I answered him I am the
person
he's looking for. He told me that on such a date, the police
had
cracked down and napped a 'ah long' (Illegal Loan Sharks) and in
his
house, they found a name list containing several bank accounts open
by
a group of people and I happen to be one of them. I was so socked
and
told him that I never would do such a thing and I do not know any
ah
long or loan sharks at all. He then challenge me and told me, 'do
you
want to see the evident we got?' I told him, 'Yes I would like to
come
down to your police office to see it because I did not do that.'
I
then asked him to give me the address, which department he is from
and
his name so that I can go down to see him. He gave me his name
is
Officer Khoo Boon Hui at Police HQ. CID Tower . Blk C, level 5.
His
office number is 6435 0000. However he quickly change the subject
and
ask me a few questions to pretend to be investigating me. He asked
me
have I lost my I/C, Bank account book? I answered No. He then asked
me
did I let anyone photocopied my I/C or Bank account book? I
thought
for a while and answered him I did a few months back at DBS Bank
when
I thought of opening a Investment Account. He then told me that
it
could be due to corruption, the bank officer may have sold my data
to
the Ah long (loan shark) in return for some cash.
He told me since from his investigation he assume I'm innocent and
one of those whose
I/C and bank data the ah long (loan shark) obtained from corrupt
bank
officers to make false ID and bank document to open bank account,
he
would fax my case to a Supreme Court office to further investigate
and
present my case before the Judge. As such there is no need to go
down
to see him at the police HQ he said. He told me he will get
the
Supreme Court officer in charge to call me and further arrange how
she
can help me to plead with the Judge together with those
innocent
parties that had been framed. From the voice of that man officer
who
talked to me, I can tell his speaking accents sound like from China
.
My mind was so confused and troubled after hearing him talked to
me
all these things I did not question that at the moment..
In a while time, a lady called me on my mobile phone saying the
'CID' who had
earlier on investigated me had called her and told her about my
case.
She would need me to cooperate with her in further investigation.
She
told me that she would need to begin to do a series of questions
she
need me to answer honestly. All my conversation with her will
be
recorded as Court evident. It's so professionally done that you
think
you're really going through a investigation answering those
questions
like did you disclose any of your bank information, documents, ID
to
anyone? Did you loss your passport, ID, bank book, credit card??
At
the end of the series of questions, she told me that they are
working
together with international police to crack down these illegal ah
long
loan sharks organization that go around corrupt bank officers to
sell
their customer's bank information, photo copied ID document to do
fake
IDs, passports, and open bank accounts for them.
