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SINGAPORE — Saddled with heavy gambling debts, Sim Zong Hui procured scanned images of StarHub customers’ identification details and used them to sign up for new mobile subscription plans.
The sales consultant then sold the phones at retail outlets and online. He managed to cheat the telco of almost S$200,000 within a few months, roping in his ex-colleague midway through his criminal enterprise.
The 31-year-old was sentenced to three years’ jail on Monday (March 22) in a district court after pleading guilty to two cheating charges. He will begin serving his sentence on April 5.
At the time of his offences in 2019, he worked at Planet Telecoms, a mobile handset retailer engaged by StarHub to process its telco contracts. He was mostly stationed at Lot 1 Shoppers’ Mall in Chua Chu Kang and Sun Plaza mall in Sembawang.
He began gambling in 2013 and started to do it more often from April 2019, borrowing money from friends as his losses piled up. His debts soon hit about S$40,000 and he hatched a plan in June to get more cash in order to repay his debts.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...tomers-nric-details-get-s183000-mobile-phones
The sales consultant then sold the phones at retail outlets and online. He managed to cheat the telco of almost S$200,000 within a few months, roping in his ex-colleague midway through his criminal enterprise.
The 31-year-old was sentenced to three years’ jail on Monday (March 22) in a district court after pleading guilty to two cheating charges. He will begin serving his sentence on April 5.
At the time of his offences in 2019, he worked at Planet Telecoms, a mobile handset retailer engaged by StarHub to process its telco contracts. He was mostly stationed at Lot 1 Shoppers’ Mall in Chua Chu Kang and Sun Plaza mall in Sembawang.
He began gambling in 2013 and started to do it more often from April 2019, borrowing money from friends as his losses piled up. His debts soon hit about S$40,000 and he hatched a plan in June to get more cash in order to repay his debts.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...tomers-nric-details-get-s183000-mobile-phones
