They say you should try and try again until you succeed — well, that's not exactly how it works with identify theft.
Two millennials from Malaysia, best friends Tan Jiunn Hou, 23, and Kong Chek Hoe, 24, were in Singapore last year expressly to buy mobile phones using credit cards that did not belong to them. They were issued by two women believed to be a part of a syndicate in their hometown. The duo were also provided with fake Hong Kong identity cards that they were to use to enter Singapore from Johor Bahru.