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IPOH: Telecommunications fraud syndicates are using the portals of MyEG Services Bhd (MyEG), the Department of Road Transport and the Election Commission to obtain more detailed information before defrauding their victims.
Bukit Aman’s Commercial CID Director Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob said these unions also use the latest applications on the market as a means to communicate with victims, as well as the Dark Web to obtain the target’s information.
“The union representative will often pose as a Telekom Malaysia customer service officer or a police officer,” he told a press conference today at the Perak contingent police headquarters here.
However, Zainuddin was unable to specify the extent of the breach of the private information of users conducting business online because the matter falls under the jurisdiction of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
At the press conference, Zainuddin also announced the success of Bukit Aman CCID in suppressing the activities of a phishing syndicate with the arrest of 22 people, comprising 19 men and three women between the ages of 20 and 46, in a raid in a house here, yesterday.
Zainuddin said the raid carried out between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. was based on intelligence carried out with public information and the police seized several items, including two cars, three laptops, 47 mobile phones, 12 passports and 37 sets of scripts. .
He said the union had been active since April 2018, where several people underwent a week-long training in Cambodia and worked in Laos until March 2020 before returning to Malaysia in May due to Covid-19.
“At the end of September, they were working from a transit house in Menglembu, here, before moving on to the fraud of the telecommunications call center in Taiping in early November before stopping their operation. In the middle of this month, operations were resumed here until the date of the raid (December 29), ”he said.
He said each union member received a commission of between RM3,000 and RM4,000 per month and the group is believed to be involved in 29 fraud cases involving victims across the country with losses amounting to RM360,000 since who returned to crime in November.
He said that all of the suspects were now sent to pretrial detention for four days starting on December 29 to assist in the investigation under Section 420 of the Penal Code and action was also taken in accordance with the Crime Prevention Act (POCA) of 1959.
Apart from that, he said that from January 1 to December 28 this year, a total of 2,226 toll fraud cases were recorded across the country involving losses exceeding RM172 million. -Called
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