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post Jun 7 2022, 01:00 AM, updated 4y ago

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Not sure if this is the correct place to hold this discussion.

Recently, so many case of money has been transferred out from the owner’s bank account to someone they don’t know and they claim that they have no idea why such thing happens.

Some of the examples are not scams it sounds like magic, by answering a call/ messages, their money get transferred out without their consent.

Another case claim that, all his monies get transferred to U mobile without receiving any OTP or authentication.

I know lowyat has a lot of experts in various field, so would like heard all the opinions from the professionals.

Is there something wrong in our banking system, or its just something fishy on the claim made by those victims.

Btw, should exclude those phishing links emails app etc, all these common ways to retrieve sensitive information, as i have described above those cases happens recently sounds like magic not scams.

Come share your thoughts…
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post Jun 7 2022, 03:26 PM

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QUOTE(shamino_00 @ Jun 7 2022, 01:46 PM)
Happen to HSBC a fren of mine. Money transferred out without OTP or any authorization. He just got SMS notifying him $$$ charged to be his account in a foreign country. His account is purely savings account and not used for any online transaction. No explanation given by the bank. Heard another customer there got tens of thousands withdrawn as well.
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This was one of those examples sounds like magic that raise concerns, common scam tactics ppl really get used to it and with so many scam alert poping out when you are performing online banking if one still fall onto it, really just blame urself for being careless and irresponsible to your own hard earned money.
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post Jun 16 2022, 11:52 PM

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QUOTE(ragk @ Jun 16 2022, 10:31 AM)
As an IT guy, my advise for commoner is

#1. Download App from playstore only, never download anything through link.
#2. When redirected to bank transfer page by 3rd party, always double check the URL, make sure its legit. Any IT guy with sufficient knowledge can easily clone the same interface to trick people.
#3. Remember your security phase and picture, always double check before login, these are the info that hacker cannot fake which only known by the bank.
#4. NEVER perform any confidential activity through FREE WIFI.
#5. This is my personal habit, deny all access request from the all application, until the moment u wanted to use it, thn it will pop the request again, and that moment u will knew whether the access request making sense anot. e.g. While using camera filter app, it will pop for camera access request, make sense, but if it's asking to access my contacts and SMS, thn that's fishy, why tf a camera app need to access them?

Pure text SMS alone cant do much thing, most likely the victim phone already infected by spyware early on, my guess is the SMS probably is just a trigger.
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Referring to the last paragraph, the whole fiasco is getting crazier. It is not just SMS/call, recently someone posted on facebook claiming that after answering those suspicious call, they tried to call the number on the back of their debit/credit card, it directed to the scammer, and when they tried with another phone, it goes to the legit call centre.

 

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