☝️*The following is the unedited Google translation of the picture from Shin Ming Daily News 新明日报:*
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Shin Min Daily News
Daily News
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
*Woman enrolled in fraud prevention course but was cheated, manager transferred 2,000 yuan away*
By Wu Yijin yijin@sph.com.sg
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A 38-year-old event sales manager promoted a skills training course and persuaded a 70-year-old woman to sign up for an anti-fraud course. Later, the manager had evil intentions and used the old woman's mobile phone to transfer 2,000 yuan from her on the pretext of helping her cancel her subscription. He was arrested and sentenced to three weeks in prison.
The defendant, Xie Hongxuan (38 years old, transliteration), faced a charge of theft. He pleaded guilty yesterday and was sentenced to three weeks in prison and was required to compensate the victim $2,000, otherwise he would have to go to jail for four days.
The defendant was an event sales manager at the time of the incident and the victim was a 75-year-old retired woman.
According to the case, on February 19 this year, the defendant met the old woman while promoting a skills training course, and then persuaded her to sign up for an anti-fraud course.
In order to register and reserve a place in the course, the old woman had to pay a fee of 30 yuan. She handed her mobile phone to the defendant and asked him to help her use it.
PayNow transfer.
A few days later, the old woman was unable to attend the course and was informed that she would have to make new arrangements. On March 7, the defendant sent a message to the old woman, asking her to meet the next day to help her process the refund for the course.
The next day, the defendant and the old woman met at a coffee shop on New Upper Changi Road. During the meeting, the defendant asked the old woman to show proof of the deposit she had paid earlier, and the old woman then handed over her mobile phone to the defendant.
3 weeks in prison
The defendant then had evil intentions and took the opportunity to use the banking app on the old woman's phone to transfer 2,000 yuan from her account without her consent.
That evening, the victim found an unauthorized transfer when checking the transaction records and immediately contacted the defendant. The defendant assured her that he would take her to the bank to resolve the issue, but then did not show up for the appointment on the grounds that he was infected with the coronavirus.
Asked to delete the message and lied to the police, former colleagues became suspicious and called the police
He taught his former colleague to delete messages and lie to the police, and the former colleague became suspicious and called the police. The defendant transferred the old woman’s money to his former colleague.
chat message, the latter did so.
Two days later, the former colleague became suspicious and reported the case to the police, detailing how the defendant had previously instructed him to cover up the transaction.
He also told his former colleague that if the police came to him, he should say that the money was paid to the defendant to buy a computer for him, and asked his former colleague to delete all WhatsApp messages between them in front of him.
The police subsequently arrested the accused on March 19.
▲A 38-year-old event sales manager transferred 2,000 yuan from a 70-year-old woman without her consent and was sentenced to three weeks in prison. (Illustration)
The defendant transferred the old woman's money to his former colleague and then asked him to return it
Secretly transfer money to a former colleague and then find an excuse to ask him to pay
to myself.
The defendant transferred the old woman's 2,000 yuan to a former colleague, and
The other party was unaware of the defendant's fraudulent behavior. Shortly after the transfer, the defendant sent a message to the former colleague,
He said that there was a sum of money that could not be transferred directly to his account, and asked the other party to transfer the money to him after receiving it, and the former colleague did so.
On March 11, the defendant had dinner with a former colleague and lied to him, saying that he had met a hacker online who had hacked into the bank account of the elderly woman involved.
The defendant also said that he was afraid to use his bank account and that he transferred the 2,000 yuan as a reward to the hacker after receiving the money.
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