Week 8: Internet Security

Do you know that in Singapore, the number of phishing cases reported increased from 1015 in 2014 to 2450 in 2015?? That's a lot! Around 67% of the phishing victims are aged between 20 and 49, many of which includes highly skilled and educated professionals. Surprising right? As Singapore is generally a safe country, Singaporeans often lack vigilance and become complacent. As such, many phishers take advantage of Singaporeans’ negligence. One of the cyber crimes in Singapore that I have presented in my group presentation is the DHL PHONE SCAM.

The DHL phone scam is a type of scam called phishing.

“Phishing is a form of fraud in which the attacker tries to learn information such as login credentials or account information by masquerading as a reputable entity or person in email, IM or other communication channels”.


In one of the news article I read, 4 Malaysian suspects swindled 155 victims of  $12 million between end March and June 2016. Over 3000 police reports made regarding the DHL scam (Koh, 2016). One of the victims, a 32 year old woman received a phone call from an unknown person claiming to work for DHL, who said her parcel was detained by Chinese customs for containing illegal items. The attacker posed as the police and acquired victim’s Internet banking credentials and One-Time Password. She then discovered $36,000 was transferred from her bank account to an anonymous account. I myself received such ridiculous calls too! I told them I would call the police and hung up on them.

With regards to this matter, the Singapore Police Force then released a video which alerts the citizens about the scam and how we can prevent such issue from happening to us.

1. Ignore such calls
2. Do not provide any personal particulars, bank account information and credit card details
3. Report the matter to the police immediately
4. Play along with them and waste their time HAHAHAHA like the video below!



Here's a funny video of how Ministry of Funny exposed these scammers. ORBI GOOD!!

Till then!