His wife had signed him up for a fitness class after coming across an ad on Facebook.
\n\nAfter being led to download a mobile application he thought was for an exercise class, an elderly man received a message from "DBS" notifying him about a suspicious S$50,000 transaction.
\n\nAs he and his family were calling DBS to verify the message, the phone was accessed and locked remotely.
\n\nA message was then left on a black screen, which read, “I won't let you contact DBS and fraud team."
\n\nSpeaking to Mothership, the man’s daughter, Nicole, shared that the purported hacking took place on Sep. 22 at around 7pm.
\n\nIn the lead-up to that, her mum, 60, had come across a video advert on Facebook for an elderly aerobics class.
\n\nIn her posts on Threads, Nicole wrote that her mum “still cannot distinguish between real and AI”.
\n\nAfter seeing the post, her mum sent in her dad’s phone number via the advert.
\n\nHer dad is 66 years old, Nicole shared.
\n\nAfterwards, a staff from the purported aerobics class phoned Nicole’s dad and said they could help sign him up.
\n\n“She did sound foreign so my dad did ask if she was. She denied…
Original source: https://mothership.sg/
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