KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 — The National Scam Response Centre (NSRC) had received as many as 37,002 calls from scam victims with a total reported loss of RM203.33 million as of May...
The prime minister said the police had opened 10,649 investigation papers for fraud cases in the same period of October 2022 to May 2024. — Reuters picKUALA LUMPUR, July 4 — The National Scam Response Centre had received as many as 37,002 calls from scam victims with a total reported loss of RM203.33 million as of May 2024.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that since its establishment on October 12, 2022 until May 2024, the total number of calls received from the public was 95,094. “The number of investigation papers opened by the Royal Malaysian Police were 10,649 for fraud cases under Section 420 of the Penal Code.
“Meanwhile, 74 investigation papers for the offence of money laundering had been opened involving the freezing of 637 accounts amounting to RM72.38 million,” he said in a written reply published on the parliamentary website yesterday to a question from Abdul Latiff Abdul Rahman who wanted to know how effective the NSRC is in dealing with online fraud crimes while also detecting the modus operandi of scammers.
As of May 2024, a total of 131 phone numbers had been terminated for being involved in fraudulent activities and 112 questionable phone numbers had been blocked. — Bernama
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