Security Advisory: January 2008
Phone Scams - A Crime Prevention Message from Police
You may have come to know about a spate of remittance scams involving phone calls that have been widely reported in the local media recently. Please click here to read the Crime Prevention Message from the Singapore Police Force.

More details of such scams can be found in the SPF website at www.spf.gov.sg or www.cad.gov.sg.

Security Advisory: November 2007
New Fraudulent Email Detected (November 2007)
If you have received an email from email accounts of account@obcfince.com and operation@obcfince.com to send in your account information in order to claim an inheritance left behind by a deceased relative, Do Not Respond.

Please note that under no circumstances will any of our Bank employees ever send you an email asking you to participate in the purported transaction or to ask you for your personal information. You should not respond to such emails. You can visit www.fraudwatchinternational.com/nigerian-419/ or www.cad.gov.sg/serv/pre/cri_pre_adv/419+Fraud.htm for more information.

Should you receive further suspicious emails, you should notify OCBC Bank immediately by calling:

- 1800 363 3333 for individuals
- 1800 538 1111 for businesses.

Security Advisory: August 2007

During our routine security checks on the internet, we discovered an unauthorised website bearing an identical domain name, logo and images belonging to OCBC Bank. The website has since been removed and is currently inactive.

We would like to remind our customers and other members of public that the official domain name of OCBC Bank is www.ocbc.com. Customers and other members of public are advised to be wary of suspicious websites bearing any resemblance to the OCBC Bank website.

If you have visited any such websites or received an email, short message service (SMS) text or instant message (IM) from an unknown party, instructing you to disclose or submit your banking details such as account numbers, usernames, passwords or credit card information online or otherwise, DO NOT respond but please alert us immediately by calling 1800 363 3333 for individuals and 1800 538 1111 for businesses.

It is not the policy of OCBC Bank or any of its related entities to send emails, short message service (SMS) texts or instant messages (IM), to request customers to provide their personal information or instructing them to perform specific transaction. This also includes directing customers to websites that does not originate from OCBC Bank.

At OCBC Bank, protecting your information has always been our priority. To learn more about our privacy and security policies, other useful information about online security and tips on protecting yourself from fraud, please visit www.ocbc.com/personal-banking/tools%20and%20info/Toi_Poc_SecPriPolicy.shtm.

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