[Singapore] - Pitiful Singaporean widow lost all her life savings of Sg$50k to evil scammer

[rushifa666]

why does this genepool still exist

 

[rushifa666]

2500 is the limitl this sounds like false police report

 

[horny]

Curses those motherfucker scammers!!!!

 

[jw5]

Do you rotate your mistresses or your pin numbers? For me, I rotate em' all.

no way! They are being rotated all the time, and they are not related to me. Aren't I clever, huh?

 

[UltimaOnline]

Updated : Mothership also ran an article about this.

A 60-year-old widow in Singapore has allegedly lost about S$55,000 to a scammer who pretended to be from DBS Bank.

Horrified by the experience, the woman’s daughter took to Facebook to share what happened to her mother in an attempt to seek help to get the money back

Bogus DBS staff scammed S$55,000 via call
In a Facebook post on Jan. 14, one Labina Fariah wrote that her mother received a call via messaging app “Viber”.

The caller claimed to be a staff member from DBS Bank and lied to the victim that her bank account had been hacked.


The victim was wary initially, and questioned why he was calling via “Viber” and not with a local number.

But she eventually relented when the caller urged her to trust him with her bank card number and iBanking pin so that he could help rectify the matter, as she supposedly had been having issues with her iBanking app for some time.

The victim realised something was amiss when she received an email informing her that about S$18,000 was sent to this person called Sunita.

Scammer wanted more
That’s when she called Labina and told her what happened. In the meanwhile, the brazen scammer was still on the phone with the victim and wanted more.

The two of them were in disbelief and “thought it was just an error” until they updated the bank book.

Labina said that her mother’s “entire saving(s) was wiped out” after losing a total of S$54,999.06 and was only left with S$99 at the end.

“She broke down and I am not sure how to make things right for her”, Labina added in her post.

Labina elaborated that the family has not been in a good financial state after her father passed away.

What happened to her mother was exceptionally devastating as she “had saved whatever she could” and life as a single mum has not been easy.

Lodged police report & informed DBS
Along with the post, Labina uploaded photos showing that a police report was made at Clementi Neighbourhood Police Centre.

<img src="https://cdn.mothership.sg/1/2020/01/82013765_10158767330952502_8677045002733355008_o.jpg" alt="" width="888" height="747" class="size-full wp-image-430744" srcset="https://cdn.mothership.sg/1/2020/01/82013765_10158767330952502_8677045002733355008_o.jpg 888w, https://cdn.mothership.sg/1/2020/01/82013765_10158767330952502_8677045002733355008_o-768x646.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Image from Labina Fariah/Facebook.
Mothership confirmed with the police that a report was lodged and investigations are ongoing.

The report detailed that the incident happened between 3:55pm to 4:35pm on Jan. 13.

A total of four payees were allegedly added after she gave away the banking details and her transfer limit was also raised to S$90,000 that day.

These payees were traced to accounts under the State Bank of India, according to Labina’s subsequent Facebook posts.

The last transaction was made at 4:13pm and Labina noted that they were seeking help at a DBS branch office at Westgate by 5:00pm.

Mothership understands that DBS Bank is in touch with Libana and her mother to look into the matter.

https://mothership.sg/2020/01/singapore-widow-viber-scam-55k/

 

[horny]

Updated : Mothership also ran an article about this.

A 60-year-old widow in Singapore has allegedly lost about S$55,000 to a scammer who pretended to be from DBS Bank.

Horrified by the experience, the woman’s daughter took to Facebook to share what happened to her mother in an attempt to seek help to get the money back

Bogus DBS staff scammed S$55,000 via call
In a Facebook post on Jan. 14, one Labina Fariah wrote that her mother received a call via messaging app “Viber”.

The caller claimed to be a staff member from DBS Bank and lied to the victim that her bank account had been hacked.


The victim was wary initially, and questioned why he was calling via “Viber” and not with a local number.

But she eventually relented when the caller urged her to trust him with her bank card number and iBanking pin so that he could help rectify the matter, as she supposedly had been having issues with her iBanking app for some time.

The victim realised something was amiss when she received an email informing her that about S$18,000 was sent to this person called Sunita.

Scammer wanted more
That’s when she called Labina and told her what happened. In the meanwhile, the brazen scammer was still on the phone with the victim and wanted more.

The two of them were in disbelief and “thought it was just an error” until they updated the bank book.

Labina said that her mother’s “entire saving(s) was wiped out” after losing a total of S$54,999.06 and was only left with S$99 at the end.

“She broke down and I am not sure how to make things right for her”, Labina added in her post.

Labina elaborated that the family has not been in a good financial state after her father passed away.

What happened to her mother was exceptionally devastating as she “had saved whatever she could” and life as a single mum has not been easy.

Lodged police report & informed DBS
Along with the post, Labina uploaded photos showing that a police report was made at Clementi Neighbourhood Police Centre.

<img src="https://cdn.mothership.sg/1/2020/01/82013765_10158767330952502_8677045002733355008_o.jpg" alt="" width="888" height="747" class="size-full wp-image-430744" srcset="https://cdn.mothership.sg/1/2020/01/82013765_10158767330952502_8677045002733355008_o.jpg 888w, https://cdn.mothership.sg/1/2020/01/82013765_10158767330952502_8677045002733355008_o-768x646.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Image from Labina Fariah/Facebook.
Mothership confirmed with the police that a report was lodged and investigations are ongoing.

The report detailed that the incident happened between 3:55pm to 4:35pm on Jan. 13.

A total of four payees were allegedly added after she gave away the banking details and her transfer limit was also raised to S$90,000 that day.

These payees were traced to accounts under the State Bank of India, according to Labina’s subsequent Facebook posts.

The last transaction was made at 4:13pm and Labina noted that they were seeking help at a DBS branch office at Westgate by 5:00pm.

Mothership understands that DBS Bank is in touch with Libana and her mother to look into the matter.

https://mothership.sg/2020/01/singapore-widow-viber-scam-55k/

all this can be prevented by going to the bank personally .not by phone,i hope these scammers got killed by pmds or cars on the road.this is my slogan to them by phone calling me GANNEENABUPUACHOWCHEEBYE TUA TUA KAI

 

[JOKERCHEW]

Never divulge your banking or ibanking pin to anyone. Even my wives and children don't know my pin.

My money are stored in my lower pillow.

No need the stoopig pin or KNN

whatever fcuks token to generate 2nd Pin.



=JC=

 

[Robert Half]

The next one will be lcb @ginfreely

 

[glockman]

Do you rotate your mistresses or your pin numbers? For me, I rotate em' all.

You're the man!

 

[cocobobo]

For capital gains I have absolutely no idea. I certainly wouldn't touch any technology stocks because today's stars are tomorrows duds.

I now invest in low tech stocks which have good dividend yield without worrying too much about capital gain. In NZ it is the power company stocks.

Ta Sam

 

[Valium]

All that story can't hide her stupidity.
Why would you give your login details to a bank staff or anyone?

 

[searcher1]

For capital gains I have absolutely no idea. I certainly wouldn't touch any technology stocks because today's stars are tomorrows duds.

I now invest in low tech stocks which have good dividend yield without worrying too much about capital gain. In NZ it is the power company stocks.

Any Singapore Stocks to intro ? Where you park there & forget about it for long-term holding

 

[halsey02]

The daily limit default is $2500 so unless her mum actually increased the limit at the request of the caller there was no way $50,000 could be remitted overseas at short order.

In addition a notification will be sent to the registered mobile phone alerting the account holder of the transfer and to alert the bank immediately if it was not authorised.

At this point the transaction can still be terminated as it does not happen in real time.

Her message itself could be a scam to seek on line donations based on this fictitious sob story.

Yes, the remittance limit is 100,000 one have to log in account do a 2factor authorisation when you do that transfer, an SMS message will being sent to the mobile number on record.

 

[Leongsam]

Yes, the remittance limit is 100,000 one have to log in account do a 2factor authorisation when you do that transfer, an SMS message will being sent to the mobile number on record.

All transactions require two factor authorisation either via the DBS app or via the assigned dongle.

The whole story sounds contrived and short on detail.

 

[halsey02]

All transactions require two factor authorisation either via the DBS app or via the assigned dongle.

The whole story sounds contrived and short on detail.

Yes I agree. I already getting annoyed in some extent, that the bank is behaving more like my late mother. I withdraw up to a certain amout from the ATM, I get SMS telling me & thereafter even a small withdraw of $10 I get a SMS. Have asked the customer service, can I reduce the annoyance...I was told can adjust.

My point is...we have security measures these days..like you mention, the story sounds...