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Macau Scam spreads to South Korean shores
Thursday, 2 Aug 2018
SHAH ALAM: Ten South Koreans have been arrested for being part of a Macau Scam syndicate.
The suspects, aged between 20 and 36, are believed to be specifically targeting victims in their homeland.
Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Mazlan Mansor said police raided a bungalow in Ampang on July 26 following a tip-off.
“We raided the house after two days of surveillance and arrested seven men and three women from South Korea.
“We also seized 14 computer CPUs, 28 monitors, seven telephones, three routers and five Internet adapters,” he told reporters at the Selangor police headquarters yesterday.
He said checks revealed that they were making calls to South Korea.
“We are working with our counterparts in South Korea to investigate their activities,” he said.
The owner of the bungalow has been identified and will be summoned for questioning.
“We are also looking for several suspects still at large,” Comm Mazlan said, adding this was the first time South Koreans had been arrested for such scams.
SHAH ALAM: You would expect the public will wise up as the police have issued numerous warnings about the Macau Scam. Instead of going down, losses actually increased by a whopping RM9mil over the last couple of weeks – and this is in Selangor alone.
Two weeks ago, Selangor police announced that Macau Scam losses hit an all-time high of RM16.63mil.
The losses, which should have gone down after police urged the public to be cautious over the phone, jumped to RM25.7mil.
Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Mazlan Mansor said he was baffled as to how the figure rose so quickly even after the recent warning.
However, following that press conference, he said police received a tip-off about suspicious activity at a bungalow in Petaling Jaya.
“We monitored the place for two days before launching a raid last week and arrested 30 suspects.
“We seized a script believed to be used to dupe victims, a piece of paper containing bank account numbers, five tablet devices and 37 mobile phones,” he said, adding three of the syndicate’s masterminds were among the 30 arrested.
Comm Mazlan said the masterminds, aged between 29 and 38, had been previously caught for white-collar crime, drug offences as well as other criminal activities.
“We believe the syndicate operated a call centre-styled operation, where they would dupe victims into believing they were speaking to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and Bukit Aman Anti-Money Laundering investigators.
“One of the victims, a lecturer, lost close to RM500,000,” he said, adding the syndicate paid its members commission-based salaries.
Comm Mazlan revealed that the lure of money was one of the reasons such syndicates never faced a shortage of willing workers.
“They would train them on how to conduct phone calls.
“We are now combing through the phones we seized to ascertain just how many people have fallen victim to this syndicate,” he said.
The term “Macau Scam” was coined because it is believed that it originated from Macau or that the first victims came from there. This has never been confirmed.
Macau Scam often starts with a phone call from someone pretending to be an officer from a bank, government agency or debt collector.
The scammer will then claim that the potential victim owes money or has an unpaid fine, often with a very short window of less than an hour, to settle the payment or face “dire consequences”.
These unsuspecting victims will then be asked to make payments to get them off the hook.
These syndicates would also pay drug addicts and the unemployed for using their bank accounts to receive payments from victims.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/08/02/why-are-they-still-so-dumb-public-continues-to-fall-for-macau-scam-despite-warnings/#S6wfFilTTAh3JtcK.99
Thursday, 2 Aug 2018
SHAH ALAM: Ten South Koreans have been arrested for being part of a Macau Scam syndicate.
The suspects, aged between 20 and 36, are believed to be specifically targeting victims in their homeland.
Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Mazlan Mansor said police raided a bungalow in Ampang on July 26 following a tip-off.
“We raided the house after two days of surveillance and arrested seven men and three women from South Korea.
“We also seized 14 computer CPUs, 28 monitors, seven telephones, three routers and five Internet adapters,” he told reporters at the Selangor police headquarters yesterday.
He said checks revealed that they were making calls to South Korea.
“We are working with our counterparts in South Korea to investigate their activities,” he said.
The owner of the bungalow has been identified and will be summoned for questioning.
“We are also looking for several suspects still at large,” Comm Mazlan said, adding this was the first time South Koreans had been arrested for such scams.
SHAH ALAM: You would expect the public will wise up as the police have issued numerous warnings about the Macau Scam. Instead of going down, losses actually increased by a whopping RM9mil over the last couple of weeks – and this is in Selangor alone.
Two weeks ago, Selangor police announced that Macau Scam losses hit an all-time high of RM16.63mil.
The losses, which should have gone down after police urged the public to be cautious over the phone, jumped to RM25.7mil.
Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Mazlan Mansor said he was baffled as to how the figure rose so quickly even after the recent warning.
However, following that press conference, he said police received a tip-off about suspicious activity at a bungalow in Petaling Jaya.
“We monitored the place for two days before launching a raid last week and arrested 30 suspects.
“We seized a script believed to be used to dupe victims, a piece of paper containing bank account numbers, five tablet devices and 37 mobile phones,” he said, adding three of the syndicate’s masterminds were among the 30 arrested.
Comm Mazlan said the masterminds, aged between 29 and 38, had been previously caught for white-collar crime, drug offences as well as other criminal activities.
“We believe the syndicate operated a call centre-styled operation, where they would dupe victims into believing they were speaking to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and Bukit Aman Anti-Money Laundering investigators.
“One of the victims, a lecturer, lost close to RM500,000,” he said, adding the syndicate paid its members commission-based salaries.
Comm Mazlan revealed that the lure of money was one of the reasons such syndicates never faced a shortage of willing workers.
“They would train them on how to conduct phone calls.
“We are now combing through the phones we seized to ascertain just how many people have fallen victim to this syndicate,” he said.
The term “Macau Scam” was coined because it is believed that it originated from Macau or that the first victims came from there. This has never been confirmed.
Macau Scam often starts with a phone call from someone pretending to be an officer from a bank, government agency or debt collector.
The scammer will then claim that the potential victim owes money or has an unpaid fine, often with a very short window of less than an hour, to settle the payment or face “dire consequences”.
These unsuspecting victims will then be asked to make payments to get them off the hook.
These syndicates would also pay drug addicts and the unemployed for using their bank accounts to receive payments from victims.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/08/02/why-are-they-still-so-dumb-public-continues-to-fall-for-macau-scam-despite-warnings/#S6wfFilTTAh3JtcK.99
Shah Alam, 01 Ogos 2018 – Pemantauan pihak polis tehadap sebuah rumah yang disyaki menjalankan aktiviti penipuan secara ‘online’ selama dua hari akhirnya membawa kepada penahanan 10 orang suspek pada 26 Julai 2018 lalu yang terdiri daripada tujuh lelaki dan tiga wanita warganegara Korea Selatan serta seorang wanita warganegara Vietnam yang dipercayai terlibat dengan sindiket Macau Scam.
Ketua Polis Selangor, Dato’ Pahlawan Mazlan Mansor berkata, kesemua suspek telah dibawa ke Bahagian Siasatan Jenayah Komersil, Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Ampang Jaya untuk tujuan siasatan lanjut.
Turut dirampas bersama-sama suspek ialah 28 buah monitor, 14 unit CPU, tujuh buah telefon bimbit, tiga unit router dan lima unit internet adapter yang dipercayai digunakan oleh suspek untuk menjalankan aktiviti jenayah Macau Scam.
Turut dirampas bersama-sama suspek ialah 28 buah monitor, 14 unit CPU, tujuh buah telefon bimbit, tiga unit router dan lima unit internet adapter yang dipercayai digunakan oleh suspek untuk menjalankan aktiviti jenayah Macau Scam.
Dalam kejadian berasingan, hasil risikan dan pemantauan selama dua hari, Bahagian Siasatan Jenayah Komersil IPD Serdang telah menyerbu sebuah rumah banglo di sekitar Petaling Jaya yang juga disyaki sedang menjalankan aktiviti penipuan secara ‘online’.
Hasil daripada serbuan tersebut, seramai tiga puluh orang yang terdiri daripada 22 orang lelaki dan lapan wanita warga tempatan yang turut dipercayai telibat dengan aktiviti jenayah Macau Scam telah ditahan.
Dalam serbuan tersebut, polis turut merampas satu keping kertas yang mengandungi skrip perbualan telefon yang dipercayai digunakan untuk memperdayakan mangsa, satu keping kertas nota yang megandungi butiran nombor akaun bank, 37 unit telefon bimbit, lima unit ipad serta beberapa barang yang dipercayai digunakan untuk menjalankan aktiviti jenayah penipuan ‘online’.
Pihak polis juga percaya sindiket ini mensasarkan warga tempatan sebagai mangsa berdasarkan skrip perbualan yang dirampas tertulis dalam bahasa Malaysia.
Kedua-dua kes tersebut disiasat di bawah Seksyen 420 Kanun Keseksaan yang mana jika disabitkan kesalahan boleh dihukum penjara tidak kurang setahun dan tidak melebihi sepuluh tahun dengan sebat serta denda.
Ketua Polis Selangor berkata, modus operandi yang digunakan oleh sindiket-sindiket ini ialah suspek akan menghubungi mangsa dengan menyamar sebagai pegawai Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM), Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM), Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) serta lain-lain agensi penguatkuasaan.
Apabila mangsa menjawab panggilan tersebut, suspek akan memperdaya serta meyakinkan mangsa agar mangsa memasukkan sejumlah wang ke dalam nombor akaun bank yang telah diberikan oleh suspek. Sejurus sahaja mangsa memasukan wang ke dalam nombor akuan tersebut, suspek akan gagal dihubungi dan pada masa itulah baru mangsa sedar bahawa dia telah ditipu.
Tambahnya, terdapat 447 kes Macau Scam telah dicatatkan di negeri Selangor bagi tempoh Januari hingga Julai tahun ini yang melibatkan kerugian berjumlah RM 23.8 juta.
Pihak polis menasihatkan agar orang ramai tidak mudah panik jika mendapat panggilan telefon yang mencurigakan dan disarankan agar terus ke balai polis untuk membuat laporan atau terus merujuk ke jabatan yang berkenaan untuk mengelak menjadi mangsa jenayah Macau Scam.
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