With the number of scams in recent news, netizens can’t help but be more suspicious of any emails or SMS that appears to be from any company, especially banks.
A netizen received an email earlier today purporting as UOB. However, on closer inspection of the email, the sender appears to be from a Japanese domain name website.
Identifying phishing emails
Emails/SMS can be sent out to trick you to click malicious links which will lead to viruses or trojans infecting your computer. The trojan could be spyware on your computer and even steal your personal information such as bank login details!
Take a closer look at the email
If you refer to the gallery below, it appears to be a legitimate email from UOB and it entices users to a monetary reward for doing a survey.
However, if you click on the name of the sender it actually reflects an email that is not from UOB.
Banks in Singapore to remove links
Recently it has been reported that Banks will begin removing links from their SMS and emails. Therefore any links that are found are probably from hackers.
You can read the full news here on the removal of links.