In some cases, the con artists use a variety of tactics to exert pressure on the patients to improve their standing.
For instance, they may transfer victims to , to speak with another scam imitating as customer service staff.
Victims would also be redirected to a hacking site with live customer support talk that resembled UnionPay’s site.
The scammers may also show false employees job passes and false documents of the alleged subscriptions, with the victims ‘ personal information.  ,
In other instances, fraudsters allegedly sent emails from the Monetary Authority of Singapore ( MAS ) warning the victims that their financial accounts did not conform to the records kept by MAS.  ,
Victims would also be informed that the Twitter accounts of the subjects had been frozen.  ,
According to police, the majority of patients just learned of the scam after making numerous financial transfers before receiving the promised refunds.  ,
The police would like to advise the public against giving money to people they do n’t know or have n’t met in person before, from disclosing personal information, bank/card information, and OTPs, and from using their phones or other screens against people they do n’t know, the advisory read.
MAS also does not keep records of adult’s fiscal or bank accounts.