Written Replies to Parliamentary Questions

Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on the Total Transaction Value of the 89 Reports of Fraudulent Card Transactions Performed with SMS OTPs from September 2020 to February 2021, by Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law

Published: 13 September 2021

Question:
 
Ms Tin Pei Ling: To ask the Minister for Home Affairs from September 2020 to February 2021, what is the total transaction value of the 89 reports of fraudulent card transactions performed with SMS OTPs where victims claimed that they neither performed the transactions nor received any SMS OTPs to authorise the transactions.

Answer:

1.    The total transaction value of the 89 reports of fraudulent card transactions was $550,500.