Singaporean impersonated US game developer chairman to buy S$7mil of cloud services for crypto mining

Using Merrill’s details, Ho opened an account on AWS, charging millions of dollars to Merrill’s American Express card for cloud computing services to mine for cryptocurrency, which he used for his own expenses. — Family photo created by jcomp - www.freepik.com

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean fraudster was given the credit card and personal particulars of about 70 individuals in exchange for forging United States driving licences for Dark Web users.

The list included Marc Merrill, the co-chairman of Riot Games, the famed video game developers behind League Of Legends and Valorant.