(18-06-2023, 07:14 PM)sgbuffett Wrote: These accounts have no internet access. ATM card can still be used but there is no possibility of hackers and scammers going into her phone and withdrawing her life savings.
I just felt the risk has gone too high now with the frequency of cases rising every months with hundreds if not thousands of victims. Recent case of scammer being able to enter CPF accounts and withdraw person's money shows that nothing online.is safe. If they can get into CPF stealing through your online.bamk.account is nothing.
There is no reason for elderly to have online banking. It just creates another avenues.for scammers
Not all those who were scammed, online or off, were elderly. Young peepur got scammed too.
I am in my 80s, but I am more savvy with online banking than you think.
I am able to rein in the major human weakness called "greed", and I am able to practise the virtue of "contentment". These two safeguards are impregnable.
Of course, one must not be too smug because scammers have all kinds of tricks. But if you are going to be paranoid, you might as well withdraw all your money and keep them in Milo tins.
Moving forward, we will require all banks to reimburse monies unlawfully withdrawn. The onus of cybersecurity should be on institutions with the means to tighten their security, rather than on individual savers who don't have such means.
That said, I do understand that you would not want your mother's savings to be stolen by scammers, which you are eyeing. You being poor, this has to be obviously enough one of your dreams that should be treaded on, ever so gently.