ICA impersonator attempted to scare me into giving personal information

Anonymous | 20 Jun 2019

Impersonation Scam
Received a call claiming to be an officer from ICA named Sherrof. He said he need to discuss something confidential so asked me to be in private. I was asked about my stay period in songapore. I was told that indian Consulate has ordered for my immediate deportation from singapore due to some legal issue back home. I said am 100% sure am not engaged in any illegal activities back home. He restricted me from talking to anyone AROUND and was threatening WITH authority quoting some articles numbers to cooperate in the investigation. He saod i should not disconnect the call or INFORM anyone.

He then mentioned about some wrong number filled during immigration. When asked to elaborate that he just explained very vaguely. I said i will inform my HR to look in to this as am not aware of it. He used more authoritative voice claiming to be on a three way CONFERENCE call with some govt agency.

I said calmly i will not disclose any personal information over phone so i will come immediately to his office with relevant documents. He just disconnected the call.