The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that residents have filed complaints about receiving SMS messages posing as local mobile payment platform MPay, claiming that their reward points would expire soon but could be redeemed for gifts, so as to trick victims into logging onto a fake website to obtain their personal information and credit card details.
The statement said the victims are tricked into entering their MPay account number, login password, one-time verification code and transaction password, adding that the victims only discover that the website they had logged in to was bogus after receiving a number of transaction messages from their bank linked to their MPay accounts.
The police reminded members of the public to check the authenticity and security of any website before accessing it, and not to provide any personal information in order to ensure the confidentiality of their bank accounts and credit cards.
In case of suspected fraud and other crimes, residents can call the Judiciary Police Fraud Enquiry Hotline on 8800 7777 or the Crime Reporting Hotline on 993 for assistance.
This poster provided by the Judiciary Police (PJ) released yesterday warns members of the public of phishing SMS messages from ‘MPay’.
