Man in SG fined record S$48,000 for registering SIM cards for customers without consent and selling them

The 95 SIM cards sold by Koh had been registered with the details of 73 people, who had their names, addresses as well as their NRIC, FIN and passport numbers used without their consent. — Pixabay

SINGAPORE: An authorised dealer for mobile phones has been fined a record S$48,000 (RM168,412) for exploiting customers’ personal data to register more SIM cards, without their knowledge or consent, before selling them.

The Personal Data Protection Commission said on Jan 17 that Koh Wei Ming, also known as Muhammad Amin Koh, was found to have illegally sold more than 1,000 of such SIM cards to anonymous buyers over four years. He made an estimated profit of about S$35,000 (RM122,800).