{"id":3556,"date":"2016-07-05T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2016-07-30T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T12:02:24","slug":"courier-service-phone-scam-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/courier-service-phone-scam-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courier and Parcel Phone Scam Fraud From China, [2016] ACCEJ 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"49305598<\/a>Recently the Singapore Police Force<\/strong> recorded a video starring Comedian Hossan Leong \u00a0(for the video: Channel News Asia<\/a>,) to raise awareness of a phone scam that caused Singaporean victims a lost of more than S$4 millions since March 2016<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0 The phone scam\u00a0 became viral in Singapore whereby \u00a0the scammers will\u00a0 impersonate officials from the\u00a0 \u00a0police, customs \u00a0\u00a0or a \u00a0courier company. \u00a0\u00a0Potential victims were told that they must send \u00a0monies to an overseas bank account as\u00a0 a price for the officers to ‘remain silence’\u00a0 since the parcel sent to them contained \u00a0\u00a0unlawful items.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0 phone call will \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0direct us to some Mandarin speaking persons. \u00a0As reported by a leading newspaper in\u00a0Singapore, the scammer will ask the victims for their names and bank account details or require the person to transfer money to a foreign account.<\/p>\n

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HIT THE SHORES OF MALAYSIA<\/h3>\n

Recently, this\u00a0\u00a0 phone scam\u00a0 hit the shores of Malaysia. \u00a0Our Mr Chang\u00a0\u00a0 received a\u00a0 phone call \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from Chongqing, China that a parcel in his name has been confiscated and required\u00a0 payment before the parcel will be delivered.<\/p>\n

He was already alerted to \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0this \u00a0\u00a0scam \u00a0\u00a0by his friends from Singapore.\u00a0 Therefore he \u00a0instead\u00a0 asked the person on the line what are the names of the recipient and the sender of the parcel.\u00a0 The caller promptly gave some excuses and hung up.<\/p>\n

The Singapore courier, SingPost said it was aware of the scam and a spokesman from DHL admitted that they received more than 200 reports of the phone scams daily. The Singapore Police Force suggest that\u00a0 people shall not provide name, identification number, contact, bank or credit card details to anyone through unreliable phone calls.<\/p>\n

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WHAT TO DO<\/h3>\n

If you should ever\u00a0 receive such phone calls\u00a0\u00a0 be aware that the parcel must have your own name, contact details and the details of the sender.<\/p>\n

It is impossible that the courier company will ask you to provide your name and contact information FIRST. \u00a0Secondly you should\u00a0 also\u00a0 \u00a0check\u00a0 the incident with the courier company itself before you provide any personal details to the unknown caller.<\/p>\n

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\"HIU
HIU Jing Yin Jennifer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

HIU JING YIN JENNIFER<\/p>\n

The National University of Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently the Singapore Police Force recorded a video starring Comedian Hossan Leong \u00a0(for the video: Channel News Asia,) to raise awareness of a phone scam that caused Singaporean victims a lost of more than S$4 millions since March 2016.\u00a0 The phone scam\u00a0 became viral in Singapore whereby \u00a0the scammers will\u00a0 impersonate officials from the\u00a0 \u00a0police, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}