A total of 11 men and one woman, aged between 17 and 40, were arrested for their suspected involvement in the recent spate of banking-related malware scam cases, following an island-wide anti-scam enforcement operation conducted between Oct 9 and 20.
Over the course of two weeks, officers from the Commercial Affairs Department and Police Intelligence Department mounted simultaneous island-wide operations and arrested the 12 people.
In these cases, the victims responded to advertisements on social media platforms such as Facebook. They were then instructed by the scammers to download Android Package Kit from non-official app stores to facilitate the purchase, which led to malware being installed on their mobile devices. As a result, the scammers could log every keystroke, steal banking credentials stored on the phones, remotely access victims’ banking apps, add money mules as payees, raise payment limits and transfer money to money mules. The scammers could further delete SMSes and email notifications of the bank transactions to cover their tracks.
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