New security measures put in place by DBS Bank, specifically an SMS
alert service to customers, may have helped to contain fraudulent
withdrawals at its ATMs over the weekend.
DBS said on Thursday that fraudsters had stolen $23,000 from the
accounts of 17 customers on Sunday. It is not a new skimming
operation, but a continuation of the one that began in November
last year.
It might have been worse had the SMSes not alerted customers who
tipped off the bank about the fraudulent withdrawals.
S'PORE MACHINES HIT
'Unlike previously, when the unauthorised ATM withdrawals took
place overseas, this was the first time unauthorised withdrawals
occurred in Singapore.'
Statement from DBS
NOT AGAIN
'I am surprised. I didn't expect it to occur so soon after the
previous incident.'
Ms Amanda Goh, an accounts manager at a marketing agency
who was one of the victims of the January scam
But the latest incident raises questions over how the fraudsters
were able to get around a slew of new security measures, and
continue using cloned card data after all the hacked ATM cards were
believed to have been blocked and replaced.
