The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has revealed that there a total of 98,607 online fraud cases have been reported in our country from 2017 to 2021. Furthermore, the total losses from all these scam cases combined exceeded RM3.3 BILLION!
As reported by national news agency Bernama, Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) assistant director (telecommunications criminal investigation) Supt Rozeni Ismail announced the damning statistics on Thursday (10 March 2022) and said that throughout the period, 30,000 individuals were detained. Out of that number, some 25,000 individuals were charged in court.
During a town hall discussion on the threats posed by scammers held on Thursday, Rozeni asserted,
“Most of them were mule account holders while those who were not charged in court were placed under the Crime Prevention Act 1959 which included restricted residence for a certain period of time,”
Furthermore, Rozeni said that most the cases involved Macau Scam, online sales and purchases, non-existent money loans and love scams. He further clarified that one of the reasons scammers managed to deceive their victims was that they operated using social media other than recruiting victims to become mule account holders, whereby the victims allow scammers to use their personal bank accounts for financial transactions from these online criminal activities.
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In fact, the CCID assistant director stressed that PDRM would be able to cripple…
