was discontinued last Saturday<\/a>, with users’ real names now displayed and certain letters masked with “X”.<\/p>\nHowever, this has led to some PayNow users’ names being displayed with letter combinations that inadvertently spell words such as “SEX”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Reddit thread highlighting the issue drew hundreds of comments, while users also took to Facebook to complain about the change.<\/p>\n
“My entire family’s surname just became NSFW (not safe for work),” wrote Facebook user Jeremy See, whose name was displayed as “JERXXX SEX WEX LOXX”. Another user, Ron Foo, wrote: “My name becomes so erotic … FOX SEX POX.”<\/p>\n
Responding to CNA’s queries on why the letter “X” was used instead of an asterisk, dash or another symbol, ABS said not all PayNow-related systems across its 29 participating institutions currently support special characters, so a letter was used instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe letter \u2018X\u2019 was chosen to mask certain letters as it is widely recognised as a symbol for something concealed or missing, and visually resembles a cross-out mark,\u201d ABS director Ong-Ang Ai Boon added.<\/p>\n
\u201cABS decided on this approach to swiftly disable a tool being exploited by scammers while maintaining a smooth PayNow experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe seek customers\u2019 understanding and will continue to review feedback for future improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) on Wednesday (Jun 10) said it was aware of feedback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,19,17,279,72527,12314,82,202037],"class_list":["post-527816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-paynow","tag-scams","tag-technology","tag-the-association-of-banks-in-singapore"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116725159417312769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}