More than S$370,000 recovered after banks, Singapore and Hong Kong police foil scam

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SINGAPORE: More than S$370,000 (US$271,000) have been recovered after the Singapore Police Force (SPF), together with two banks and the Hong Kong police, foiled a scam targeting a 70-year-old victim. ...

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The officers visited his residence but he was not at home.\n\"The ASC tried other means and managed to reach the victim’s family friend, who disclosed that S$240,000 was missing from the victim’s UOB bank account,\" said SPF.\nThe ASC \"immediately worked with UOB to suspend the victim’s UOB bank account and traced the funds to a bank account in Hong Kong\". \nAt the same time, the ASC worked with ADCC to successfully recover the full amount from the bank account in Hong Kong, SPF added.\n\n\n\n\nTHE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SCAM\nThe victim had been surfing the internet on his computer when a pop-up notification appeared, said SPF, adding that he was unable to close the notification.\nThe victim then called the number displayed on the pop-up notification that claimed to be a “Microsoft Helpline”. \nAfter being told that his computer had been hacked and his bank accounts were being used for illegal activities, the victim was redirected to an “SPF cybercrime unit officer”. \nUnder the pretense of an “investigation”, the scammer obtained the victim’s bank account credentials, including his user ID and passwords. These were then used to transfer money out of the man's accounts. \n\"This swift coordination between DBS, UOB, ASC and ADCC led to more than S$380,000 recovered for the victim,\" said SPF.\n\n\n\n\n      What to do if you fall prey to a technical support scam\n  \n\nTurn off your computer immediately to limit any further activities that scammers can perform.\nUninstall any software that you have installed at the instructions of the scammers.\nPerform a full anti-virus scan on your computer and delete any malware detected.\nReport the incident to your bank to halt further activities relating to your bank account(s).\nChange your Internet banking credentials and remove any unauthorised payees who may have been added to your bank accounts.\nReport the incident to the police. \n\n\n\n Collapse \nExpand","kind":null,"is_publish_news":null,"is_publish_highlight":null,"is_publish_live":null,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.22.4","shortVersion":"4.22.4","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2432524000"}