A 68-year-old woman lost more than $72,500 from her POSB bank account in 15 minutes after she downloaded a third-party app in a bid to sell her pre-loved kitchen appliances online.
What she downloaded turned out to be malware that enabled scammers to control her Android phone and drain money from her POSB savings account.
Hoping to sell several pre-loved kitchen appliances, including a steamboat set and grill, she contacted the so-called buyer through Facebook Messenger. He asked her to open her POSB digibank app to check if she received the payment. She followed his request but did not see the money. Alarmed, she told the buyer about it. He assured her that her phone was faulty. She became suspicious as her phone was not faulty before their call.
Madam Abdul, who works at a training school, said she had set aside that money for her retirement, insurance and medical expenses. “We had read news about such scams, but didn’t realise that the threat was so close to us. She thought scammers would pose as sellers, not buyers. This is probably a new tactic and she wasn’t aware of it,” the 43-year-old educator added.
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