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Phone numbers of over 21.9 million people in 🇲🇾 were leaked and maliciously sold last year 😰 Gogolook Whoscall TechNave

022 Annual Fraud Report, Malaysia was granted the unwanted title of being 1st place in cell phone numbers breached by the global security company.

The report further asserted that the leaked data may lead to stolen online banking or social network accounts. When scammers get access to names, phone numbers, and even payment and shopping records, they can easily initiate phone and message attacks. Besides that, Whoscall, which is powered by Gogolook also identified that over 405.4 million scam calls and messages took place last year. Results also showed that scammers prioritise text messages for high penetration rates due to its low costs feature which contributed to 76% of messages being used as the ’first contact’ in fraud cases.

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