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Protecting Yourself Online
You play an important role in securing your banking transactions. #BSHARP.
- Day to Day
- Ways to Bank
- Protecting Yourself Online
Protecting Yourself Online
You play an important role in securing your banking transactions. #BSHARP.
At a Glance
Banking online can be safe as long as you stay vigilant and proactively safeguard your information.
#BSHARP Security Tips
Check out these security tips to protect yourself online.
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Recent Scams & Frauds
Stay updated on the latest security news that might affect the way you bank online.
Business email compromise scam
Date: Oct 2024
Signs to look out for:
- Scammers impersonate business partners or suppliers via a hacked email account or a spoofed email address to send false invoices with altered account numbers.
- Scammers may use spoofed email addresses that look similar to legitimate ones with slight errors or changes to letters/symbols.
- Email contains fake invoices asking for a change of payment modes and threats of losing the contract if instructions are not followed. These include transferring funds to a new account number urgently.
- Scammers urge you to contact them via different communication channels.
Protect yourself and your business:
- Treat any new or sudden changes in payment instructions or bank account details of your suppliers with extreme caution, especially when informed via email.
- Always verify directly with your supplier through alternate communication channels like a phone call using a verified phone numbers.
- Verify invoices and the payment details against known records. Make payments to local companies via Unique Entity Number (UEN) instead of via mobile number or direct transfers.
Bulk orders scam from scammers posing as school staff
Date: Jul 2024
Signs to look out for:
- Scammers reach out via unofficial communication channels (e.g., WhatsApp, SMS, Phone Call from unknown number) impersonating school staff and place large orders for school projects with promising revenues. They later change the order to include high-value or unrelated items.
- Scammers will request businesses to purchase additional items from a fraudulent supplier with advance payments.
- Scammers claim to transfer the funds to reimburse businesses for the purchase and provide unauthenticated screenshots of payment proof.
- After the victim makes payment, both scammer and supplier will disappear without delivering the goods.
Protect yourself and your business:
- Always insist on making payments to local companies via Unique Entity Number (UEN), instead of mobile or direct transfer.
- Avoid making advance payments to new business partners or suppliers. Only initiate payments to known bank accounts.
- Always verify the authenticity of the purchaser by checking independently with the organisation they claim to be from.
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