!['It was like fighting a war': OCBC group CEO on dealing with recent phishing scams 'It was like fighting a war': OCBC group CEO on dealing with recent phishing scams](https://static1.straitstimes.com.sg/s3fs-public/styles/large30x20/public/articles/2022/01/23/20220121_58310720_35c7af8f-6090-4191-b8b6-df6eea815656%20%281%29_0.jpg?VersionId=BFfI.lHp2ImebN_x.942CeC3GsZJA2Kb)
SINGAPORE – In early December, staff at OCBC Bank started getting calls from frantic customers saying they appeared to be victims of a phishing scam.
As employees from Singapore’s second-largest bank worked to get to the bottom of this, more and more cases started popping up.
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