Single mum keen to earn side income, loses nearly $50,000 to 'Gucci' scammers - The Independent Singapore News

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Singapore – News of the surge of phishing scams involving OCBC Bank has made many other bank customers come forward with their own stories of scams that they fell for. A single mother, Ms Octavia Delima, said in one post that because she is permanent resident and does not “enjoy as much subsidy as a …

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Singapore – News of the surge of phishing scams involving OCBC Bank has made many other bank customers come forward with their own stories of scams that they fell for.

“I believe most people have heard of scammer preying on people who want to make more money for their family. Yes [I] myself fell prey to one scam”, she said.Ms Delima said that she got to know of this scheme through a chat group. Those who joined would then be given a mission to verify a Gucci product. What people would have to do is make a transfer of the value of the product to a PayNow account, she wrote.

For them to return all her money, the merchants informed her that she would have to fork out another S$36,660.“Stupidly , [I] went around borrowing the sum to make payment. I was not in the correct state of mind at this point of time. And finally [I] manage[d] to beg n borrow the final 36,660 and transfrredLo and behold , they said that…because of the mistakes, the entire transaction was frozen !!!! Can you imagine what is going through my mind?”, Ms Delima wrote.

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