Close to S$15.8 billion set aside under banks’ ‘money lock’ feature to protect customers from potential scams

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SINGAPORE: People in Singapore have set aside close to S$15.8 billion (US$11.7 billion) in savings out of the reach of potential scammers through a security feature offered by banks here. The amount, ...

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July. \nMore than 181,000 customers have used the “money lock” option as of Oct 31, about a year after it was introduced, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said. \nThis feature, available at seven major retail banks, prevents locked funds from being transferred out, even if a scammer gains digital access to the account.\nCurrently, DBS, OCBC, UOB, Citibank, HSBC, Maybank and Standard Chartered Bank provide this security feature, MAS said. \n“With this, the vast majority of the retail depositor base in Singapore is now able to utilise Money Lock for greater assurance,” a spokesperson said.\n“Other retail banks have rolled out or are progressively looking to roll out Money Lock in the coming year.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBENEFITS OF FEATURE\nMAS said that those aged 30 to 49 used the feature the most, making up 43 per cent of all users. \nThose above 50 formed the next biggest group, at 42 per cent, while those under 30 made up 15 per cent.\nAny customer who wishes to withdraw their locked funds would have to visit designated automated teller machines to do so, said Mr Alex Goh, lead of UOB’s fraud and mule investigation team. \n“This lapse of time is a good connective break for the customers, because they could perhaps reflect on the conversation or encounter and eventually realise that they could have fallen for a scam, and hence cease further transfers to any potential scammer,” he said.\n“Even in the unfortunate event where the customer’s online account had been compromised, the funds that had been secured by Money Lock  will not be available for any form of transfers,” he added.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis bank witnessed the benefits of the feature in August this year.\nThrough its post-transaction surveillance effort, the bank discovered that a customer had transferred money to a suspicious account thinking it was for investment purposes, when it was likely to have been a scam, Mr Goh said.\nHe had already transferred S$700, he 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