He said there were two police officers there at that time, and they came up to him and gave him a brochure warning of credit-for-sex scams.Instead, when he received a call from a man claiming to be the"big brother" of the woman minutes later, he transferred almost $700 in three transactions to the scammers.
"He said it was for the protection of the lady, and when I said I didn't want to pay any more, he started to threaten me.Mr Tan said he regretted ignoring the police's advice.There were 533 reported cases last year, up by 28.7 per cent from the 414 cases in 2017.
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