Despite changing credit card thrice, S’pore doc was charged six times without her knowledge


Dr Lim’s case comes amid a growing number of reports from credit and debit card holders in Singapore and abroad who discover their card details have been fraudulently used to buy services from legitimate firms, including Open AI and Apple. — Image by jcomp on Freepik

SINGAPORE: After discovering that AirAsia had charged her UOB credit card for two transactions totalling over S$1,060 (RM3,636) that she did not authorise, Dr Zena Lim replaced her card in April.

But to the 47-year-old’s horror, someone else continued to use her credit card credentials to make payments to AirAsia in May, despite her attempts to stop these transactions by blocking and replacing her card two more times.

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