And yet folks wonder how the phishing scams could have arisen so effortlessly. Did you even fucking do some due diligence before hiring his ass eh OCBC????
https://www.ocbc.com/group/about-us/our-leadership#praveen-raina
https://sg.linkedin.com/in/praveenraina
Sinkies Song Boh????
OCBC AGAIN!!!!!
375 OCBC customers double-charged for bill payments on AXS; bank says glitch resolved
A glitch at OCBC Bank that resulted in double payments of bills via the AXS app and website last week has been resolved, and all customers have been refunded.
Customers who paid their bills using OCBC cards last Thursday (March 24) via the AXS mobile app m-Station and the Web-based AXS e-Station were charged twice.
AXS said there were 375 such cases and it was alerted to the issue when customers called in on Saturday (March 26).
One customer, who wrote to the media, said she made a bill payment of more than a thousand dollars on Thursday using the AXS mobile app.
Giving her name only as Ms Lee, she said she realised on Saturday that she had been charged double for that transaction and called the bank and AXS that same day.
She followed up with another call to OCBC on Monday.
In response to queries from The Straits Times, OCBC's head of cards business Vincent Tan said all duplicate transactions had been rectified by Monday.
The bank apologised for the inconvenience caused to affected customers.
An AXS spokesman told ST that AXS did not trigger the double deduction.
She said that AXS users are redirected to OCBC's payment gateway page to enter their card details.
"The user will actually complete the transaction on OCBC's payment gateway and then OCBC will return to us whether the transaction is successful or not successful," she added.
OCBC's Mr Tan said the error happened because its vendor that processes AXS payments on the bank's credit cards had a processing issue, resulting in duplicate transactions.
A similar incident in June last year resulted in DBS Bank customers being charged twice for transactions made on their debit and credit cards.
https://tnp.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/375-ocbc-customers-double-charged-bill-payments-axs-bank-says-glitch-resolved
7 youths aged 19 to 22 charged over recent OCBC phishing scams; 6 others under probe
SINGAPORE — The police have arrested nine men and four women, aged between 19 and 22, for their alleged involvement in a spate of high-profile phishing scams involving OCBC Bank between December last year and January.
In a news release on Sunday (Feb 20) evening, the police said that seven men among those nabbed were charged in court on Friday. The scams had hit 790 OCBC customers who lost a total of S$13.7 million to the scammers.
The police said they had been closely monitoring reports of the phishing scams and identified the 13 suspects through “thorough investigations and extensive probes”. They were arrested in an islandwide operation on Feb 16 and 17.
An array of mobile devices, bank cards, SIM cards, S$2,760 in cash and two Rolex watches — worth S$35,600 in total — were seized.
The seven men, all Singaporeans, hauled to court each face a charge of helping another to retain the benefits of criminal conduct, under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act. They are:
• Brayden Cheng Ming Yan, 19
• Kong Jia Quan, 19
• Jovan Soh Jun Yan, 19
• Roy Peh Yong Rong, 19
• Muhammad Khairuddin Eskandariah, 20
• Lim Kai Ze, 21
• Leong Jun Xian, 21
Court documents showed that around December last year, they had each procured control of at least one bank account and handed control of the accounts over to unknown people, identified as “Ah Seng” and “William”.
They allegedly had reasonable grounds to believe that the unknown people were engaged in criminal conduct.
All seven have been remanded for further investigations. Those convicted can be jailed for up to 10 years or fined up to S$500,000, or punished with both.
Police investigations against the other six suspects are ongoing.
Court documents showed that Leong and Kong had previously been charged with belonging to a secret society and assaulting four others with other men.
Meanwhile, Soh faces separate charges of cheating Standard Chartered Bank in July last year into opening a bank account for him by making them believe he was the sole operator of the account.
He also allegedly provided an unknown person with the account username and password.
The police warned that they would “spare no effort” to track down those involved in scams. Members of the public should always reject requests by others to use their bank account or mobile lines as they could be held accountable if they are linked to crimes, the police added.
The public can visit www.scamalert.sg or call the anti-scam hotline at 1800-722-6688. Anyone with information on such scams can also call the police hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.
On Wednesday, OCBC announced that customers will now be able to freeze their own accounts by activating a “kill switch” if they believe that they have fallen victim to a scam.
The Singapore-based bank completed arrangements to reimburse all the victims with "goodwill payments" late last month.
The scam prompted Finance Minister Lawrence Wong to issue a ministerial statement on Tuesday that touched on the measures banks and authorities were mulling over to tackle the problem.
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/7-youths-aged-19-22-charged-over-recent-ocbc-phishing-scams-6-others-under-probe-1822161
LOL never heard of University of Windsor in my life, how does it compare to Uptron ACL? :P
RECAP.
Shed crocodile tears much after the phishing saga?