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New “Unknown Payee Bank Scam

 


There is a new bank scam going around in Singapore according to the news... 

“The man said he received the phishing message with a link at around noon on Dec 21 last year.

It claimed that an unknown payee had been added to their account, and instructed him to click on the link if it was not approved by him.

"The SMS looked like it came from OCBC and entered the usual SMS chat history from OCBC used for authentic banking services," he said.

"The link took me to a site that looked exactly like the OCBC login page."

He then entered his account details, unwittingly handing over control of the whole account to scammers.”

Even though this bank involved had some automated system to detect fraud and inform their customers, it seems the scammers were able to block and delay the reciept of warning sms the bank had sent out

Read the details at: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/ocbc-bank-customer-lost-120k-in-fake-text-message-scam-another-had-250k-stolen?utm_campaign=stfb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0RTmJM4NmWgfKOwWoNt0_i-xfghzLBDRrzyP3CwT9Hec5pGpDtjC9N08Y

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