They had approached victim businesses or companies to provide services such as cleaning and painting on an urgent basis.
Six men and one woman, aged between 22 and 54, were arrested for their suspected involvement in refundable deposit scams targeting commercial services providers.
Preliminary investigations show that to facilitate the scams, SIM cards were supplied, messaging accounts were set up, and money mule bank accounts were acquired to receive the payments. Cash withdrawals of scam proceeds were made from these bank accounts.The police said in a statement that have been receiving reports since May this year of scammers posing either as tenants of commercial units or residential management entities.
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