Scam has been Common techniques of this gang is a spoofing
identified as a strategy through a telephone call that claims to telecommunication be from trustworthy officials from either the fraud originating from court or the police department syndicates. In order to Disguising themselves as bank officers, trick victims into pretending the credit card charges have not handing them a large been received by victims sum of money, Tricking criminals into believing that they have perpetrators received a lucky draw and even also staged a predominantly use local hostage abduction and foreign lines from Hong Kong. Sadly, Most frequent targets for these scams are senior crime has now spread citizens across Asia, and Malaysia is not exempt. To avoid becoming victims, what should we do? 1. By first calling the police or the financial institution involved 2. Do not reveal any private details to any anonymous individual, including a bank WHAT IS THE account number, ATM card or credit card CONCLUTION ? number. 3. While using their official numbers, always MACAU SCAM !
Do not panic quickly verify with the agency concerned and do
and do not follow the not call back any number that was given instructions given by during the call. the caller without contact the financial 4. Visit the Bank Negara Malaysia website to institution involved for obtain the latest information further confirmation. WHAT IS THE STATISTIC ? Never disclose your Out of the 16,690 cases reported to CCID last bank account number, year, 13,724 or 80.9% of cases were solved. ATM card or credit Federal CCID director Comm Datuk Seri card number to Mortadza Nazarene warned the public that strangers. when the offer is suspicious that mean its to Refer to BNM's official good to be true, then it is probably a scam. website for the latest information and advice Recording the biggest losses at RM200.78mil, on fraud. with Macau Scam in second and parcel scams third. Do not hesitate to contact the MACC to In 2018, six cases of telephone scams were help. Security as a made known to OFS. In 2019, that figure almost whistleblower is fully doubled to 11 cases. And this year, there were guaranteed in 46 cases as at Aug 31. accordance with the Whistleblower PREPARED BY :