When a Singapore crypto cop told a single mum she had been scammed of her savings of over $120k
SINGAPORE – Thinking she had found her ‘lifelong partner’, a single mother sold her flat and transferred the earnings together with her life savings worth over $120,000 into a scammer’s cryptocurrency wallet.
Even though they had never met, or had any video calls together, she still packed up her belongings, withdrew her two children from school and was about to begin a new life abroad with her ‘lover’.
A day before her flight, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Lee Hua Sheng from the Anti-Scam Command’s (ASC) Crypto Tracing Team (CTT), asked her to come down to the ASC office, as he suspected she was a scam victim.
Her bank had alerted the ASC about the suspicious transactions, which prompted ASP Lee to contact the…
