Went to UOB bank at bedok central to open an
account.
A guy approach me & ask for my ic. I though he is attending
to me and give it to him. He went to his seat, scan my ic and ask
lot of stupid question. In the end, he direct me to the banking
hall. What a waste of my time.
I realise that he is actually an investment agent. His
approaches is highly unethical. He is
poaching on unsuspecting customers. They appear
helpful but they are actually sniffing for your money.
How can we trust UOB to hand over our ic to
such people? They can check our financial status with our ic.
Banking used to be simple but not until now. Bank are now
promoting investment and employing such agent to harass customers.
They look for people waiting at the counter and hard-sell
their investment.
So, the next time you went to a bank especially UOB Bank - be on
the look-out. Don;t hand over your ic to anyone that approach you
and appear helpful.
common lah. This is how alot of bank agents get people to do
investments. How do you think cases of aunties going market buy
vege, ended up going home with $50K invested in some non money
making Structure Deposits?
With your NRIC they can access every account you have with the
bank (be it UOB, DBS, OCBC, Abn Amro, Citibank, SCB, ICICI, HL,
ANZ, etc) , the balances, if u had bought any investments,
FDs, insurance with the bank. They'll then decide if you have
sufficient money to do investment, if yes, they'll ask you to have
a seat. =)
I've heard of a small handful of cases (meaning reported, not
reported ones I dunno) where a male agent, used the address, dob,
etc info from a female bank customer to try to date her.
However being fair, there are alot of cases (and I really mean
ALOT) where male customers tried to get fresh/date female bank
agents. The male customers acted interested in investments, but
they are trying to just chit chat with the female agents, stalk
them, see if there are any potential of getting free "tofus".
So conclusion, everywhere got good nuts, bad nuts. Understand TS
got flanked by the investment agent, so just be more careful in
future, and ask in depth why anyone needs your details.
