Thirteen people, including a 16-year-old youth, were arrested for their suspected involvement in the recent spate of banking-related malware scam cases. Preliminary investigations showed that 10 of the 13 suspects, aged between 16 and 27, had allegedly facilitated the scam...
for cleaning services, pet grooming and food items on social media platforms, such as Facebook.
By doing this, a phone’s security features are weakened, and allows the scammers to control the phone, such as being able to log every keystroke and steal banking credentials stored in the phone and allows them to remotely log in to the victim’s banking apps, add money mules as payees, raise payment limits and transfer monies out to money mules.
Between January and June, victims were reported to have lost about $8 million in more than 700 malware-related scams. At least eight of these scams involved CPF savings, with losses amounting to $124,000.
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