Another unfortunate case of the fake China cops scam has surfaced. This time, the victim is a Singaporean man in his 60s, who lost about $270,000 from five POSB accounts under his name over eight days last month. Sadly enough, that money was supposed to go towards his children's education and his family's expenses.
The fateful morning came when the man received a phone call from someone claiming to be a policeman, who relayed the message that a female 'bank employee' who contacted him in the past had been arrested overseas. That person also said that the man's accounts had been implicated in her crimes, and would be frozen if he did not call Chinese police officers and do as they told him to.