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Table 4 Top eight most similar scam reports using text-based approach

From: Supporting crime script analyses of scams with natural language processing

Rank

Tag ID

Jaccard similarity score

Scam report (pre-processed)

Scam category

1

1866

0.500

automated robot voice called me and said it is from singapore high court, and i have outstanding summon also repeated in mandarin then i hung up. not sure what is the intention of the call

Impersonation scam

2

356

0.462

received a call from at. am on april. it was an automated voice stating the call is from singapore high court. put down the phone immediately after, so did not hear the rest of the message

Impersonation scam

3

279

0.400

i got the above call and it says i got an outstanding summon and to dial nine to talk to someone. someone answered and says its singapore high court the person sound like a local singaporean

Impersonation scam

4

141

0.400

got a call from a local singapore number. answered the call and it was an automated voice in english saying the high court of singapore was serving a summons on me. i immediately hung up. this is a total scam, the high court of singapore will never serve summons like this

Impersonation scam

5

1874

0.385

received a phone call with a voice message saying this is singapore high court. you have an outstanding summon. press

Impersonation scam

6

1803

0.385

call with automated voice saying i have summons from singapore high court. press to proceed. someone picked up the call but then did not speak anything

Impersonation scam

7

1026

0.375

i received a call from initially it was automated voice saying you have been summoned by singapore high court to get a document, for more details press. as i just received a dhl scam call yesterday, i did not proceed any further

Impersonation scam

8

1840

0.375

received a call from this morning. a computer voice said this is the singapore high court. you have a summon pending. please press after the beep for more information. i became suspicious and cut the call. beware people

Impersonation scam