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The syndicate is believed to have been led by a bogus Datuk .
Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) deputy director Comm Datuk Mohd Kamarudin Md Din said police conducted a series of raids around the Klang Valley on Tuesday (Jan 5) and arrested 22 Malaysians and two foreigners. We seized 22 mobile phones, one tablet device, 10 laptops, one computer, one hard disc, 14 books on forex investments, 1,000 counterfeit US$100 bills, 10 real US$100 bills, 15 ATM cards, nine luxury watches, seven gold bars believed to be fake, 11 branded bags, jewellery, and RM2,230 cash. We also seized a Ferrari F430, a McLaren exotic car, three Mercedes Benz and a Toyota Vellfire, he told reporters Friday (Jan 8).
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A scam syndicate have apparently managed to obtain personal information of their victims from portals that belonged to selected government agencies. This was revealed by the Director of
Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) at PDRM Bukit Aman, CP Zainuddin Yaakob during a press conference earlier today.
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Road Transport Department (JPJ) and
Election Committee (SPR) as well as
MyEG who is one of the main electronic service providers for the Malaysian government. Aside from that, the syndicate has also utilised the Dark Web to illegally source the personal information of its victims.
CP Zainuddin further revealed that the syndicate which operated in Perak has been around since 2018. Some of the members have trained in Cambodia and spent some time in Laos up till earlier this year after the COVID-19 outbreak forced them to return to Malaysia.
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DECEMBER 28 According to the Malaysian Federal Commercial Investigation Department, the police had recorded 5,218 Macau Scam cases from January to October 2020 with Malaysians suffering losses amounting to RM256 million. Further, this year, some 4,865 Investigation Papers on the Macau Scam have been opened by the Commercial Crime Investigation Department of the Royal Malaysian Police.
Macau Scam is a telecommunication fraud originating from syndicates in Taiwan and China where the perpetrators often using local and international telephone lines including Voice Over Internet Protocols, trick victims into transferring huge sums of money.
Fisherman duped of RM13,000 by ‘daughter’ 27 Dec 2020 / 13:38 H.
KUANTAN: A fisherman was duped of RM13,000 by an unknown individual impersonating as his daughter when telephoning him on Friday (Dec 25).
Pahang Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Supt Mohd Wazir Mohd Yusof said the 59-year-old fisherman received the call from the woman whose voice sounded almost the same as his eldest child at 11 am while he was away at sea.
He said his “daughter” told him that she had changed her telephone number and asked him to bank in RM5,000 for business expenses and gave him an account number.
“The man asked a friend to do the transaction before again being contacted by the suspect who asked for additional RM8,000 saying the RM5,000 was insufficient.