Learn to recognise scams so you won't be cheated, experts urge


KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The story of the Macau scam is all too familiar. The victim gets a phone call from an official-sounding person and is told he/she has outstanding loan payments or unpaid fines. The victim panics and willingly follows the instructions of the "official”, including transferring huge sums of money into another party's bank accounts, to supposedly “avoid getting into trouble”.

These scams and how they work have been widely reported in newspapers, news portals and social media, yet people continue to fall prey to scammers.

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