Jail for ex-hair salon worker who spent over S$1,000 of customers' CDC vouchers on herself

A former employee at Yun Nam Hair Care has been sentenced to six weeks in jail for stealing over S$1,000 worth of customers' Community Development Council (CDC) vouchers. Phang Koh Xing, 31, pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust and violating the Computer Misuse Act. The court also considered two additional charges of a similar nature. Phang was ordered to compensate the two victims, totaling S$1,167, or serve an additional nine days in jail if she defaults. While working as a customer service consultant at the salon's Ang Mo Kio Hub outlet, Phang assisted customers with setting up payment methods on their phones. In August 2025, she exploited this access by forwarding the CDC voucher redemption links from two customers' text messages to her own phone. She then used these vouchers for multiple transactions at various merchants, including NTUC FairPrice, Sheng Siong, an optical shop, a department store, and food outlets. One victim, a 60-year-old woman, discovered the unauthorized use after Phang helped her set up Shopee instalment payments and reported it to the police. In a separate incident, Phang similarly misused the vouchers of a 31-year-old woman after helping her with Atome app payments. The second victim reported the transactions after noticing them. Phang had resigned from her job at the time of the offenses. The prosecution highlighted that Phang exploited the trust placed in her, leading to the wrongful access and misuse of the victims' vouchers. She made a voluntary restitution of S$200 to the second victim.

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The accused was specifically entrusted with customers’ phones to help them set up payment methods on their respective phones.