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SINGAPORE: In need of money to settle his loans, a man agreed to "rent out" his bank account which was later used to receive more than S$3.3 million.
BANGKOK: A new decree will require banks, phone operators, and platforms to share liability for online scams, set to take effect next month.
KUALA LUMPUR: Banks must take full responsibility for financial fraud losses if the loss was caused by their security weaknesses, says Deputy Finance Minister Lim Hui Ying.
JAKARTA: Indonesia has decided to come on board the BRICS-sponsored multilateral development bank, which President Prabowo Subianto believes could help the country expedite its economic development.
PETALING JAYA: Reports about Malaysians losing their life savings due to scammers have fast become a daily affair.
KOTA KINABALU: Sarawak's revenue has tripled to RM14bil in under a decade — a transformation Warisan says Sabah can achieve too, if its people unite behind local leadership, says Datuk Junz Wong.
JOHOR BARU: Police here are investigating two separate fraud cases involving a phone scam and an online gold purchase scam leading to losses over RM64,000.
The US officials add that the trickery can also extend to searching the user's files for personal identifying information, bank details, email addresses and passwords.
Trafigura's top executive in Mongolia, who has been suspended while a billion-dollar fraud scheme at the Swiss trading house is investigated, loaned over US$500mil of Trafigura's money to a firm owned by his aunt, Reuters has found.
Bank Islam Malaysia is supposedly conducting a lucky draw offering a RM1mil grand prize. To sign up, contestants need to click on a website link and register.
SINGAPORE: Shortly after his wife died, a man shared details of his bank accounts with people he met online who claimed to be women, only to find out that some of the accounts were later used to handle scam proceeds.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Monday warned its Colombian employees against traveling to or from the United States after three staff members were affected by visa restrictions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the matter said.
IPOH: A kitchenware company in Teluk Intan lost about RM258,400 after falling victim to a business email compromise (BEC) scam.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. bank regulator told banks to pause dabbling directly in crypto in 2022 and 2023, but did not order them to stop providing banking services to crypto companies contrary to industry complaints of widespread "debanking," according to documents released on Friday.
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Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (March 19, 2025)
As sophisticated scams targeting the life savings of Americans create headlines across the US, the industry’s lowest-paid employees keep getting caught selling sensitive customer information out the back door – emerging as a critical area of weakness in banks’ risk controls.
SINGAPORE: Just one month into his new job, an assistant vice-president at OCBC began abusing the access his job gave him and started looking through the account balances and other details of bank customers, including Singaporean politicians, influencers, his colleagues, friends and family members.
MALAYSIANS are known for their resourcefulness, especially when it comes to saving money.
IPOH: A former civil servant in Taiping lost about RM216,200 after falling victim to a phone scam.
