In 2016, A S’pore Man Hired Hacker With RuneScape Money To Hack Into Ex-GF’s Boyfriend Email Account

Love makes you do crazy things.

It makes you go running 8 times a week despite the fact that you’ve never run, even for your IPPT.

It makes you wear the colour pink even though you’ve sworn off the colour since you were 12 and learned about the concept of manliness.

It even makes you use in-game currency to hire someone to hack into your ex-girlfriend’s email account, no matter how creepy it makes you look.

Reader Bao: Wait, what did you say?

Um, love makes you do crazy things?

Reader Bao: No, after that.

It makes you love pink?

Reader Bao: No, the last one, something about hacking with in-game currency.

Oh, well, yeah, that happened.

Couple Broke Up, Ex-GF Ties Up Loose Ends

Back in 2016, Lee See Hao broke up with his girlfriend.

His girlfriend had shared her email access with him during the relationship, no one knows why, and decided she don’t want him accessing her stuff after they broke up.

So she got a 23-year-old male friend to help her change her security settings and lock him out.

When Lee found out, it wasn’t pretty.

Hired Hacker With RuneScape Money

According to CNA, Lee got in touch with a guy he knew could hack into online accounts via Skype on 10 Sep 2016.

Lee only knew him as Jake and that he is not from Singapore.

He promised Jake 60 million coins in RuneScape if he could access the 23-year-old man’s email account.

So Jake did, and he took two screenshots of the victim’s email account and sent them to Lee.

Lee then sent the two screenshots to the victim, along with this message:

“I can empty your bank account so ****ing easily. I promise you I won’t do anything, unless you step out of line.”

Scary? Scary.

A police report was lodged against Lee and the victim immediately changed his security settings.

Hired Hacker Again To Get Into Ex-Gf’s Boyfriend’s Email

Later that month in Sep 2016, Lee had a second target.

This time, a 21-year-old man who was dating his ex-girlfriend.

So he approached Jake again, this time requesting for the 21-year-old man’s email password.

The price? Another 60 million coins in RuneScape.

Unlike the previous circumstance, however, Lee didn’t approach the victim this time.

Instead, he used the email to get into the victim’s Instagram account and Facebook.

The Instagram account was deleted while he reset the victim’s Facebook account’s password.

The victim immediately lodged a police report and pointed out Lee as the suspicious one.

Apparently, Lee had previously shown unhappiness with the relationship between him and his ex-girlfriend.

Probation

On 22 Sep 2020, Lee was sentenced to a year’s probation.

He was convicted for two counts of instigating another person to secure unauthorised access to computer material, as well as one count of intentionally causing alarm by sending threatening communications.

Four other charges were reportedly taken into consideration during sentencing.

His mother has furnished a bond of S$5,000 to ensure his good behaviour and Lee has to perform 50 hours of community service, as well as stay with his mother during his probation.

“He Was Young”

Lee’s lawyer, Jonathan Lim, had asked the court for probation for his client.

It’s been four years, he said, and Lee was a young offender then.

Since 2016, Lee has completed his NS liability and managed to get enrolled into Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and steered clear of trouble.

Lee has also been working as a food delivery rider part-time, he added, to help supplement the income of his family who is not financially well-off.

He currently lives with his mother, who is divorced.

“Any imprisonment, high fine, and criminal record for a young offender like See Hao’s could potentially derail his future plans and career.”

It was also pointed out that the second victim, whom his ex-girlfriend was dating, had taunted him when Lee contacted him previously.

He had reportedly said, “She is mine now.”

For Lee’s offence, he could have been jailed for up to two years, fined up to S$5,000, or both.

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