SINGAPORE, July 16 — For several years now, shady operators on Telegram have been offering ways to help people who are not qualified to drive to circumvent the law, such as by...
SINGAPORE, July 16 — For several years now, shady operators on Telegram have been offering ways to help people who are not qualified to drive to circumvent the law, such as by selling car sharing accounts for them to rent cars, or providing them with forged driving licences.
In another case in January 2022, a 17-year-old boy used his mother’s Tribecar account to rent a car, and then got into an accident. “An animated and holographic lion crest on the digital licence deters image tampering and screenshot spoofing – the lion crest will be absent or appear static if a person simply captures a screenshot or recording of the digital licence and attempts to pass that off as authentic,” the police said.This reporter went undercover to find out how car sharing account sellers operate.
Upon further questioning, the sellers claimed that upon purchasing an account with them, they would give a customer a physical copy of another person’s identification card and bank card. Sellers also said including a fake driving licence under the account could be done, but one told me that getting a “real” driving licence “under the table” would be better. This seller claimed that he had “insider people” to provide “under table” licences.He further claimed that he had connections with people working in the Traffic Police who could “bypass” the system to issue “legitimate” driving licences.
Drive lah said its incidence rate for cases of unauthorised use of accounts was below 0.06 per cent of trips, and these usually involved people using their family members’ accounts. A GetGo spokesperson said that the firm uses GovTech’s MyInfo service, facial recognition via Singpass and biometric identification to qualify users before they can book a vehicle or start driving.
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