SINGAPORE - When she received a call from someone claiming to be from her bank's anti-fraud team, the Singaporean student panicked.
Alone in Britain, Christina (not her real name) was convinced by the caller that her primary account was compromised, and that she should move all her money into her secondary account for safe-keeping.
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