8world| Woman screen-shared her phone with scammer who stole her personal information from phone, loses at least $150k

[jiakliaobee charsiew]

Heng used xiaomi

 

[huihong]

i dont even share my phone screen with my wife.

 

[DigDub]

Wow nowadays android phones look so much like iphones!

 

[ricohflex]

That is why I warned.
Countries governments want to push hard for citizens to adopt Phone Banking / Digital Banking but failed to think carefully through the potential pitfalls.
They failed to protect their citizens.

If a country is not able to control / stop the scams, then the least they can do is to STOP all phone banking / digital banking. In the meantime call a moratorium on this.
Until they can find a fail-safe solution.

Individuals can protect themselves by:
1) Giving explicit instruction to their bank manager to forbid phone banking / digital banking on their own bank accounts.

2) Never using a phone to pay a bill.

Contrary to perception, it is NOT 杀气 to pay using mobile phone.
Money is money. $1 million in old notes cash is still $1 million.

 

[Whimsica]

This group of elderlies is the most vulnerable:

1. Savvy enough to use WhatsApp/ WeChat, Singpass and banking apps
2. Decent proficiency in Mandarin
3. Dun read or watch MSM
4. Lonely/ alone, stubborn and refuse to check with own family members, too trusting

 

[cpuer]

no wonder thailand shutdown power is not a problem, one succesful case can buy how mnay generators and kerosene

 

[sanzhu]

Tik tok say live TV app good

Free channels on tv

 

[Jurchen King]

+852 is HK country code.

 

[Nevereatrice]

Long time never see the 别信别听别给 advertisement. Think also gave up

 

[David Lai]

If she had bought Trump coin instead, she would have 1 million already!

trump cant give her the satisfaction leh…

 

[MrAwesomeX]

This group of elderlies is the most vulnerable:

1. Savvy enough to use WhatsApp/ WeChat, Singpass and banking apps
2. Decent proficiency in Mandarin
3. Dun read or watch MSM
4. Lonely/ alone, stubborn and refuse to check with own family members, too trusting

Best is stick to old Nokia phones .

 

[iosnewbie]

The 8world article said she’s in her 60s, retired 5 years ago and have housing loan and credit card bills to pay. How did she end up in a situation where she still needs to service a housing loan after retirement?

 

[iammole]

gov don't want to push to bring back hardware token , then is mybfd.

 

[runny yolk]

JUST DONT ANSWER ANY FOREIGN PHONE NUMBERS AND IF CALLER FROM LOCAL NUMBERS TRY TO GET YOU TO DO SOMETHING, ALWAYS DISCUSS WITH YOUR FAMILY OR FRIENDS FIRST

 

[deathan9el]

making this really hard to believe ..
the way these scammers works

either we're just too daft or we think that we're smart enuff or both? :/

 

[thyler_koh]

sometime really cannot go tech on boomers.

they got no knowledge yet they wanna act like they know.

Yeah boomers are like that . Act like they know everything . Pui

 

[vee4044]

old ppl in SG are rich.....................

No. Their Children is RICH. One Aunty told me every morning send her Son Send her to Casino. Gave

Her 5k to gamble. at night bring her back.... Who's is the Son I want to know. Power Sia.....