Vishing is another common form of phishing whereby scammers use savvy social engineering tactics to convince victims to act and, in the process, give up private information and access to accounts.
Often, the caller will pretend to be calling from the government, tax department, police, or trusted organisations such as AIA and use threats and convincing language to make the victim feel as though as they have no other option then to provide the information being asked of them. For example, a scammer may call you to threaten that your AIA policy may be terminated unless you provide the login credentials of your AIA+ account.
How to protect yourself?
- Verify legitimacy of caller's phone number/identity.
- Do not reveal any confidential personal information and end the call immediately if you are unable to verify the legitimacy of the caller.
- If the sender/caller claims to be from AIA you may contact us at 1800 248 8000 or (65) 6248 8000 (from overseas), Mondays to Fridays bet.