'DHL' parcel scam: 23-year-old suspect arrested
Posted 19 Jul 2016 21:05 Updated 19 Jul 2016 21:20
SINGAPORE: A 23-year-old man has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a "DHL" parcel scam, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said on Tuesday (Jul 19).
In a news release, SPF said a 32-year-old woman lodged a report on Jul 4 regarding a call received from an unknown person who claimed to be working for courier company DHL. She was told that she had a parcel containing illegal goods that was detained by Chinese Customs. The call was then transferred to another person whose number was reflected in caller ID as "999", and he claimed to be from the police, SPF said.
The victim was then asked to provide her Internet banking credentials, including the one-time password (OTP) from her Internet banking dongle. She later discovered that her i-banking account had been accessed without her knowledge and about S$36,000 had been transferred to an unknown bank account.
Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department who investigated the case arrested a 23-year-old suspect on Monday.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect is believed to be involved in at least five other similar cases in which the victims had suffered losses amounting to a total of about S$90,000, SPF said.
The suspect will be charged in court on Wednesday for dishonestly receiving stolen property. If convicted, he faces up to five years' imprisonment, a fine or both.
The arrest comes amid a rising trend in phone scams. Just four days ago, the police separately nabbed three suspects for a similar scam, and since March police say they have received more than 50 reports of scammers impersonating overseas officials, tricking their victims into sending more than S$4 million in total.
The scams usually involve callers impersonating staff from courier companies like DHL and informing victims that parcels containing fake passports or weapons had been shipped in their name. The calls would then be transferred to another person claiming to be a customs or police officer who would tell victims to provide personal information including identification number, address, passport number and bank account details.
Impersonation scams and Internet love scams accounted for the top 10 largest single cheating cases in the first four months of the year, with an impersonation scam claiming the highest amount lost by a victim in a single case this year - S$2.3 million.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
FedEx to hire 20,000 temps for holiday season
FedEx to hire 20,000 temps for holiday season
Posted: 23 October 2012 0337 hrs
NEW YORK: FedEx, a leading US package delivery company, said on Monday it would hire 20,000 temporary workers to help handle surging shipments during the year-end holiday season.
FedEx Corp. predicted its biggest day of the year would be December 10, when they expect to handle a record 19 million shipments, up 10 percent from a year ago, driven by online orders.
For the overall holiday season between Thanksgiving and Christmas, FedEx forecasted it would handle more than 280 million shipments worldwide, 13 percent more than in the same period in 2011.
The company, based in Memphis, Tennessee, has a global workforce of more than 300,000 employees.
On October 10 Fedex announced it was planning to cut "several thousand" people from its workforce via a voluntary departure programme beginning early next year.
The cuts are part of a cost-reduction plan aimed at boosting profits by $1.7 billion by 2016.
- AFP/de
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Posted: 23 October 2012 0337 hrs
NEW YORK: FedEx, a leading US package delivery company, said on Monday it would hire 20,000 temporary workers to help handle surging shipments during the year-end holiday season.
FedEx Corp. predicted its biggest day of the year would be December 10, when they expect to handle a record 19 million shipments, up 10 percent from a year ago, driven by online orders.
For the overall holiday season between Thanksgiving and Christmas, FedEx forecasted it would handle more than 280 million shipments worldwide, 13 percent more than in the same period in 2011.
The company, based in Memphis, Tennessee, has a global workforce of more than 300,000 employees.
On October 10 Fedex announced it was planning to cut "several thousand" people from its workforce via a voluntary departure programme beginning early next year.
The cuts are part of a cost-reduction plan aimed at boosting profits by $1.7 billion by 2016.
- AFP/de
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Friday, October 5, 2012
FedEx launches S$97m hub in Singapore
FedEx launches S$97m hub in Singapore
By Kristie Neo | Posted: 03 October 2012 1818 hrs
FedEx launches S$97m hub in Singapore
SINGAPORE : Cargo transportation giant FedEx launched a new S$97 million hub on Wednesday, consolidating air, ground and customs clearance operations under one roof, located within the Air Cargo Express Hub at Singapore's Changi Airport.
This means that FedEx shipments are now transported, cleared and sent from aircraft to vehicle through one single location, rather than three.
The 282,700 square foot facility is now double the size of its previous three Singapore facilities - one in Bukit Panjang and two in Changi - put together.
Apart from serving the Singapore market, it is also FedEx's South Pacific Regional Hub and acts as a trans-shipment point for Asia Pacific shipments in and out of Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
This has reduced internal cargo handling time from two hours to 10 minutes.
Sorting of packages is also fully automated, reducing manpower by 25 per cent.
Karen Reddington, regional vice president for South Pacific at FedEx Express, said: "We have invested in this facility because it allows us to be more effective in our delivering services to our customer. It allows us to be more efficient, it takes time off the packing in the facility, and puts time where we want to, which is with the couriers on the road."
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By Kristie Neo | Posted: 03 October 2012 1818 hrs
FedEx launches S$97m hub in Singapore
SINGAPORE : Cargo transportation giant FedEx launched a new S$97 million hub on Wednesday, consolidating air, ground and customs clearance operations under one roof, located within the Air Cargo Express Hub at Singapore's Changi Airport.
This means that FedEx shipments are now transported, cleared and sent from aircraft to vehicle through one single location, rather than three.
The 282,700 square foot facility is now double the size of its previous three Singapore facilities - one in Bukit Panjang and two in Changi - put together.
Apart from serving the Singapore market, it is also FedEx's South Pacific Regional Hub and acts as a trans-shipment point for Asia Pacific shipments in and out of Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
This has reduced internal cargo handling time from two hours to 10 minutes.
Sorting of packages is also fully automated, reducing manpower by 25 per cent.
Karen Reddington, regional vice president for South Pacific at FedEx Express, said: "We have invested in this facility because it allows us to be more effective in our delivering services to our customer. It allows us to be more efficient, it takes time off the packing in the facility, and puts time where we want to, which is with the couriers on the road."
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