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Two banks got taken offline because an aircon broke. | On Saturday, 14th Oct 2023, the aircon in a somewhat innocuous building in an unpretentious locality in Singapore broke down. It shouldn’t be a big deal. ...
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Keeping watch on credit card fraud. | So it came to be, after so many years, that a credit card fraud happened to me. The card fraud itself is not much of a story to tell. But there are other things about it that are ...
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After our Prime Minister spoke about e-payments at the National Day Rally last year, there has been a flurry of e-payment initiatives spawning everywhere. We all understand the benefits of e-payments, but I’m not so sure ...
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No, it’s not a robbery in the Netherlands. It’s a robbery in our Holland Village. Perhaps with all the recent focus on fighting terrorism, someone has forgotten that banks need security guards too. Apparently there ...
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I’ve been silent on the case of the man who was held partially liable for about $12K of fraudulent credit card charges over his hacked phone, even though I had quite a few cents to say. You see, I’m an IT security ...
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I read an article on Yahoo Finance yesterday about how Standard Chartered was making a robbery victim responsible for fraudulent charges. Whatever their legal rights were, it seems very morally wrong of what the bank did. I ...
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The DBS ATM skimming fraud that took place earlier this year has probably made more Singaporeans aware of this sort of crime than ever before. Banks have had, both before and after that incident, installed various types of ...
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This is a UOB ATM encountering a “system problem”, spotted recently at a crowded shopping centre in Singapore. The machine is basically a PC running a flavour of Windows. I’m just trying to figure out what ...
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Does this cheque look real? Yes, that’s because it is real! It came to me in some junk mail (advertising) recently. “Free” money in the mail! You’ve probably heard of banks mailing out pre-approved credit ...
