Jene Lim

☎️ Hi, is this Jene? Me: Who are you? Where are you calling from? 🙏 Pardon me if my phone greeting is curt and cold nowadays.  80% of the calls I pick up tend to be scam calls, claiming to be from DHL, ICA or someone who claimed to be a friend and asked why I didn’t recognise their voice.  Yesterday I picked up one more who asked me to go down to a physical location to pick up something free. This sounded like those timeshare schemes which were prevailing some years ago but seemed relatively naive nowadays.    Today,  I also read this  article  on The Business Times  about how scam rates continue to increase in spite of all the education to date.  “The bait may differ – be it spoofed SMS links, QR codes, websites, calls from authorities and so on – but the pattern is the same: befuddle victims into revealing their online banking login name and password. This is why banks have such a major and critical role to play in stemming online fraud. ...

Apart from phishing emails and SMSes, now a new variant of scams is happening, targeting online shoppers who may be taken in by the websites which have similar looking domain names and even similar look and feel.  Consumers have no choice for now but to endure increased friction, by clicking from parent website domain- country selector - Singapore to get to a real page, spend extra time checking legitimacy of domain names or risk falling prey to scams where  💳 credit card details and other personal data may be compromised  📦 goods might not be delivered  🥸 goods delivered might be counterfeit  As a consumer, here’s what you can do :  ✅ Avoid clicking on dubious links provided by unofficial sources. The authenticity of a link should always be verified with the official website or source. ✅To check if something is a scam, go to www.scamalert.sg or call the Anti-Scam Hotline on 1800-772-6688. #digitaltrust #consumer #data #tech #digital #scam  #phishin...

🔐12 steps to secure trust for your business 🔐   👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/gRAybSiv Check out the practical and useful tips by Raju Chellam who sits on the Exco of SGTech’s Cloud & Data Chapter (CDC) and on the Digital Trust Committee.  Love his opening limerick and do check out his ending one in the link above.  DIGITAL TRUST IS QUITE HARD TO FIND, WITH SCAMS AND HACKS OF EVERY KIND. WE TYPE IN OUR INFO, HOPING IT WON’T GO, TO SOME CYBERCRIMINAL’S BIND. More about Digital Trust:  This is part of a series of educational materials which informs the public on the relevance of digital trust for consumers and businesses. Follow me and SGTech for latest articles.  #digitaltrust #business #smes #data #tech #cybersecurity #sgtech #transformlifesg #jenetalksdigitaltrust