The Police have arrested two Malaysian men, aged 22 and 29, for their suspected involvement in using stolen credit card information via mobile payment service to make unauthorised transactions amounting to more than $28,000.   

On 11 April 2024, the Police were alerted to a case of suspected fraud using mobile payment service. Through investigations, officers from the Anti-Scam Command established the identities of the men and arrested them on 16 April 2024. Preliminary investigations revealed that the two men and their accomplices had allegedly provisioned stolen credit card information in mobile payment service in Malaysia, and later used them to make several unauthorised transactions of luxury goods and mobile devices amounting to more than $28,000 in Singapore. Upon their arrests, several mobile phones, an EZ-link card, and cash amounting to more than S$3,000 and MYR900 were seized as case exhibits. Efforts are still ongoing to trace their accomplices.