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KINGSTON, Jamaica— At least $22 million have been defrauded from the accounts of National Commercial Bank (NCB) customers in phishing attacks since the start of the year.
More than half of this amount was defrauded a little over a week ago, Dane Nicholson, Manager for Special Investigations in the bank’s Fraud Unit, said.
“So, over the last 10 days or so we have seen close to $18 million, but for the year starting from January 1 to current, is about $23 million thereabout that customers have lost to phishing and phishing attacks,” Nicholson revealed.
Phishing is a type of scam in which fraudsters send fraudulent messages, by either SMS or email, to trick people into handing over delicate information about their bank accounts.
Nicholson told OBSERVER ONLINE that the money taken over the last 10 days was from the accounts of about a dozen customers.
He said the police are on board with the bank’s investigations and so far, one person has been arrested in connection with the attacks. He expects more arrests.
The attacks have forced the bank to enact new policies. “We have implemented a no click, no link policy,” Nicholson explained. “So once customers get these SMS or email messages with a link in there asking them to click on it, please we are advising the customers not to click…
