In the first two months of this year, people in Selangor were swindled out of RM33.7 million by online scams.
Selangor police chief Datuk Arjunaidi Mohamed issued a statement stating that in January and February this year, the Selangor Commercial Crime Investigation Department opened an investigation into 549 reported cases, of which 405 were from online fraud and the remaining 144 of the cases were other non-online crime cases.
Among them, 405 cases were received in the first two months of this year, which netted a total of RM33.7 million, accounting for 73.8% of the total commercial crime rate in Selangor, which shocked the police.
The worry is that victims, whether individuals or companies, only realized they had been swindled out of tens of thousands or even millions of rm1 million of their hard-earned money after sending money online, via email, or online.
The most common and rampant online fraud cases in Malaysia include online dating, online shopping, online banking transactions, phishing, and scams. Phishing refers to the fraudulent use of bank users’ names, passwords, and credit card numbers from the Internet.
Therefore, the public is urged to be mindful and vigilant not to be the targets and victims of these scammers.
