Singapore police and DBS recover 70-year-old scam victim’s RM590,000

In a statement on May 16, the police said the victim had been prompted by a pop-up alert on her computer telling her to contact Microsoft. — The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: Within hours, a woman lost more than S$170,000 (RM592,272) to a bank account in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after handing her bank details to a scammer pretending to be from Microsoft’s support department.

But unlike many victims of technical support scams, the 70-year-old successfully recovered the sum on April 24 after swift intervention by the police and DBS Bank.