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Macau scam cases are on the rise with losses amounting to hundreds of millions of ringgit yearly.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob (
pic) said 5,725 cases were reported in 2019 involving RM254.5mil in losses.
“The cases continued to spike to 6,003 cases last year. The total losses increased to RM287.3mil.
“So far, we received 1,392 cases this year with losses amounting to RM38.1mil, ” he said when contacted yesterday.
The victims were mostly women aged 51 and above, Comm Zainuddin said.
“The syndicates would prey on such victims, using fear as the ultimate tool in duping them to surrender their savings.
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BUKIT
MERTAJAM: Police busted four unlicensed money-lending syndicates (Ah Longs) offering loans with high interest rates after detaining 29 individuals, including a woman, in a series of 12 raids in Penang and Perak on Thursday.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (JSJK) director Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob said that acting on information and intelligence, the Bukit Aman JSJK in collaboration with the Penang JSJK raided 12 locations in Seberang Perai Tengah and Seberang Perai Utara in Penang and in Kerian, Perak from 6 am to 10 am before detaining the 29 people, aged 21 to 54.
“As a result, the police managed to bust four Ah Long syndicates Ah Boy, Anson, Alvin and Ah How which offered illegal loans via online to borrowers such as traders, government employees and those in the private sector nationwide.
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Michael Chong has cautioned the public about widespread Covid-19 vaccine scams.
The MCA Public Services and Complaints Department chief said he was sent a screencap of an online shopping platform supposedly listing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine a few days ago.
He said the vaccine was purportedly being sold for RM63.88 and came with free shipping, adding that it was incredulous that some people were taken in by it.
“How would the shipping be done as the vaccine needs to be stored in extreme cold temperature?
“All these are scams and yet people believe them, ” he told a press conference yesterday.