A person did Whatsapp video call today afternoon and claimed that he is calling from Singapore Police Force, showing the huge banner behind him. I first thought it was genuine.
But when he said my bank complained about not updating my IC num, it created a doubt. He said if I don show him my Ic, he will block my card and account. I understood the whole story and asked him to do so and warned him if he does this kind of Scam call again. But this was not enough, he had guts to call me back within 5 mins and said “I’ll catch you in 5 mins”. Be prepared.
These calls are really frustrating and threatening. I am sure they were not operating from Singapore. The accent was European and Ph num seems to be from Pakistan.
Beware and ignore such phone calls!
2nd Impersonation scam story:
Scammer called me pretending to be my cousin but dont say name but made you say yours. The problem is he describe a scenario similar to my real cousin situation having open new bizz and lost wallet and phone needing some help to pay off some vendor. one follow by another and another. I lost 20k in 2 TRANSACTIONS before getting suspicious. I could have just asked my actual cousin to verify!
Please be alert!
3rd Story:
I received a call, claiming to be from ‘Singtel technical team’, it detected unusual internet usage from foreign ip address.
Asked whether internet slow recently, ask how many devices connected to the internet, ask to log in usage personal laptop, key in ctrl r, cmd, ask to verify a verification code only singtel can provide. show that there are foreign ip address found and using your internet. ask to key in gg.gg/singtel01 (Note: Phishing site. Do NOT click) but ended up show nothing and found suspicious then hang up the call.
Please beware of this. Hope that my story could help!