An order of mooncakes cost one woman S$76,000 (RM260,595), after scammers took control of her phone through a third-party app and siphoned the money from her bank account.
Lee, an administrative executive, had chanced upon a Facebook advertisement for bunny-shaped mooncakes filled with Mao Shan Wang durian from a bakery called “Sunshine Cake House” on Sept 14.
“I’ve read about all these scams so I refused to give my PayNow and the fraudster paid the deposit for me,” said Lee, who only wanted to be known by her surname. “I was so careful but I got scammed all the same.” In the morning, Lee woke to find that her phone had been “compromised”. She could not make any calls or log in to her mobile banking apps.The grifters had raised her transaction limit from S$500 to S$20,000 and transferred S$76,000 out of her DBS account in a series of four transactions.
Lee, who hopes to recover the stolen sum from DBS, questioned how the “unusual” transactions went through without any notifications sent to her.
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