Beware of phone calls offering zoo tickets
If you receive a phone call telling you that you have won free admission to the Singapore Zoo, do not celebrate.
It is likely to be a scam to steal personal details like your name and identity-card (IC) number.
A handful of people turned up at the zoo earlier this month only to find out that the tickets they had "won" did not exist.
They also learnt that the person who called them did not work for the zoo.
In a statement issued to my paper, Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which runs the zoo, confirmed that it has uncovered a recent spate of phone scams.
The victims were requested to reveal their IC numbers over the phone in exchange for "free zoo tickets", WRS said in the statement.
Ms Isabel Cheng, director of marketing and communications at WRS, advised members of the public to make a police report if they receive such calls.
The scam came to light after the Singapore Zoo received several inquiries, in person and over the phone, about the free tickets.
~News courtesy of Omy~
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