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Warning: Don’t fall for SingPass phishing scam

Alfred Siew
Last updated: June 26, 2015 at 6:05 PM
Alfred Siew Published June 26, 2015
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If you receive a suspicious-sounding e-mail telling you to verify your details for your SingPass account by clicking on a link, don’t do so and delete the message.

That’s the advice from the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), which said yesterday that such scam e-mails have been received by some SingPass users. They are not sent by SingPass, it cautioned.

The messages are titled “SingPass account security info verification” from “SingPass Government [notification@singpass-services.gov.sg]”

Asking users to verify their e-mail addresses because their account has been suspected, they appear to be aimed at “phishing” for unsuspecting users, said the infocomm regulator.

Such ruses usually lead users to a website that can inject malicious software code into their PCs, giving access to hackers to steal information.

Some #SingPass users have received an email titled “SingPass account security info verification” from “SingPass…

Posted by IDA Singapore on Wednesday, 24 June 2015

 
The IDA’s advisory comes amid efforts to tighten the security of e-services in Singapore.

After some 1,500 SingPass accounts were compromised last year, the government set about putting up long overdue controls on access to sensitive information such as tax information and retirement account balances.

Access to such services will likely require users to log in with not just a password but also a pin from a separate token.

This two-factor authentication has been used in banking for several years in Singapore, but has only now been adopted in some of the 340 services that SingPass offers access to.

For more tips on security from the SingPass folks, click here.

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Alfred is a writer, speaker and media instructor who has covered the telecom, media and technology scene for more than 20 years. Previously the technology correspondent for The Straits Times, he now edits the Techgoondu.com blog and runs his own technology and media consultancy.
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  • unwired says:
    June 27, 2015 at 2:28 am

    Why do you use yellow on white? I am almost blind and need to reach for my magnifier glass. Cheers and may your god go with you. john oz, perth.

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