SINGAPORE: A woman who held jobs at a supermarket and a halfway house took down credit card information of customers at NTUC FairPrice, created an EZ-Link mobile account with details from a halfway house resident and combined the two to make S$41,330 worth of unauthorised EZ-Link top-ups.AdvertisementThe 30-year-old woman, who was a former prison officer, pleaded guilty to 11 charges under the Computer Misuse Act, with another 24 charges taken into consideration.
She wrote down card details such as expiry dates and CVV numbers on an NTUC plastic bag, transferring them to a notebook after work.While still working as a cashier, Qiu took up another job from April 2018 as an operations executive at Selarang Halfway House, which provides support for ex-convicts. She keyed in the credit and debit card details into the EZ-Link account and made various top-up transactions with amounts ranging from S$10 to S$100 to various EZ-Link cards she had.
OCBC Bank caught wind of the crime after receiving multiple reports from the cardholders on unauthorised transactions made to EZ-Link applications, and filed a police report. Lawyers Josephus Tan and Cory Wong of Invictus Law asked instead for not more than five to six months' jail, saying that a large part of the money has been recovered.
She"felt that it was 'unfair' that she was getting by only with her salary although she did her best", said Mr Tan.
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