Woman arrested for cheating

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Woman arrested for cheating
Posted: 10 January 2012 2029 hrs

SINGAPORE: Police have nabbed a 23-year-old woman, believed to be involved in at least seven cases of cheating island-wide by impersonating as the victims' cousin.

Her mode of operation involved getting the victims' contact via social networking site Facebook. After trawling through Facebook, she would SMS her targets and ask for loans ranging from S$500 to S$2,000.

As part of her ruse, she claimed that she was using a new number because she had lost or changed her old mobile number.

The unsuspecting victims would then transfer their money into the woman's POSB bank account. The victims only realised that they had been cheated after checking with their own cousins.

Acting on information from one victim, police ambushed the suspect at about 3am early Tuesday morning in the vicinity of Hougang Central.

She will be charged in court on Wednesday. If convicted, she could be fined and jailed for up to 10 years.

Police urge other victims who may have also fallen prey to this cheating ruse to come forward and lodge a report.

Commander of Ang Mo Kio Police Division, Assistant Commissioner of Police Hsu Sin Yun, commended his officers' swift response and good investigative probe resulting in the arrest of the suspect.

AC Hsu would also like to advise the public to be vigilant against similar ruses, and to exercise due diligence to check and verify the identity of the individual before parting with their money. The public is also advised to restrict their personal information to reliable and known persons on social media.

-CNA/ac

 

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Woman swindles money with help from Facebook
By Alvina Soh | Posted: 11 January 2012 1610 hrs

SINGAPORE: An unemployed woman was on Wednesday charged with allegedly cheating another woman of S$2,000 by impersonating as her cousin.

22-year-old Tricia Tan Si Ying, is believed to be involved in at least six other cases of cheating by using the same ruse.

Her scheme involved getting the victims' contact via social networking site Facebook.

She would then SMS her targets, asking for loans ranging from S$500 to S$2,000.

She has allegedly made away with S$4,500 in all.

As part of her ruse, she told her "cousin victim" she was using a new number because she had lost or changed her old mobile number.

The unsuspecting victims would then transfer their money into the woman's POSB bank account.

The victims only realised they had been cheated after checking with their own cousins.

Tan, who was arrested early Tuesday morning in the vicinity of Hougang Central, will have her case mentioned again on 18 January.

If convicted, she could be fined and jailed for up to 10 years.

- CNA/ck

 

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Woman gets probation for cheating 34 of $18,000

AsiaOne
Friday, Aug 03, 2012

A 22-year-old woman has been given probation for cheating 34 victims of nearly $18,000.

Tricia Tan Si Ying, unemployed, admitted to 17 charges of cheating and one of giving false information to the police.

According to The Straits Times, she cheated her friends and her mother over a four-month period from last December.

In November last year, she obtained the particulars of the victims' cousin or friend via Facebook and impersonated them to ask for loans.

She would send text messages to the victims and deceive them into believing that their friends or cousins were in urgent need of cash, inducing them to transfer money into her bank account.

The victims only realised that they had been cheated after checking with their real cousins or friends.

Tan continued cheating even while she was on court bail after being arrested.

She used the same way to cheat her victims, except that she told them to transfer money into another person's bank account.

Tan cheated her mother by telling her that she was making restitutions to the victims of the first set of cheating offenses.

Her mother transferred money to various bank accounts, from which she later retrieved the money.

The English daily said the court took into account 33 other counts of cheating and attempted cheating during her sentencing.

The prosecution had objected to the probation and asked for a jail term instead.

However, the judge placed her on 18 months' probation and bonded her parents for $2,000 to ensure good behavior.

Tan, who was found to have low intelligence, said she would look for a job to pay her victims back. Her parents have made partial restitution of $3,150 to some of the victims.

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