IPOH: Telecommunication fraud syndicates are using the portals of MyEG Services Bhd (MyEG), Road Transport Department and Election Commission (EC) to obtain more in-depth information before swindling their victims.
Bukit Aman Commercial CID Director Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob said such syndicates also used the latest applications in the market as a medium to communicate with the victims as well as Dark Web to obtain the target information.
“The syndicate representative will often masquerade as a customer service officer of Telekom Malaysia or a police officer,” he said in a press conference at the Perak contingent police headquarters, here, Wednesday.
However, Zainuddin could not state the extent on the breach of private information of users who conduct business online because the matter is under the purview of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
In the press conference, Zainuddin also announced the success of Bukit Aman CCID in busting the activities of a fraud call syndicate with the arrest of 22 individuals comprising 19 men and three women aged between 20 and 46 years in a raid at a house, here, Tuesday.
Zainuddin said the raid conducted between 7am and 4pm was based on intelligence carried out with public information and police confiscated various items including two cars, three laptops, 47 mobile phones, 12 passports and 37 sets of scripts.
He said the syndicate had been active since April 2018 where several individuals underwent a week-long training in Cambodia and worked in Laos until March 2020 before returning to Malaysia in May due to Covid-19.
