SINGAPORE: The police warned on Tuesday (Sep 17) of a phishing scam variant involving the impersonation of the Land Transport Authority’s (LTA) OneMotoring site.
Emails, purportedly from OneMotoring, would inform victims that their vehicles’ road tax or road licence would be expiring.
Since September 2024, at least eight cases of this scam variant have been reported, with total losses of at least S$28,000 (US$21,600), the police said in a news release.
The scammers would disguise a malicious URL by embedding it behind legitimate-looking hyperlinked text to mislead victims into believing it was a safe link, police added.
Victims would be redirected to a phishing payment website impersonating OneMotoring after clicking on the URL.
They would then be prompted to key in their vehicle registration numbers, personal information, and credit or debit card details.
Victims only realise they had been scammed after they discovered unauthorised transactions made to their credit or debit cards, said police.
