The Anti-Scam Command arm of the police then alerted the UAE authorities and Interpol who managed to intercept the sum and foil the plot on Aug 6.
On Aug 1, an employee of the Singapore-based firm received an e-mail from a scammer posing as a supplier in the United States, instructing him to make payment for an invoice to an updated UAE bank account, said police on Aug 8. The same modus operandi was at play then, too: an employee of a commodity firm in Singapore had transferred the sum to a sham supplier.
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