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KUALA TERENGGANU: Cryptocurrency investment fraud is the latest trend in commercial crime, with professionals and senior citizens increasingly falling victim to these scams, says Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) Director Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf.
KUALA TERENGGANU: A medical officer has lost RM86,200 to a cryptocurrency investment scam after being lured by a WhatsApp group.
SINGAPORE: Twenty-five people were arrested, and another 65 are under investigation, after an islandwide anti-scam operation by the police and local banks, which ran from mid-February to early March.
KUALA TERENGGANU: Cryptocurrency investment fraud is the latest trend in commercial crime, with professionals and senior citizens increasingly falling victim to these scams, says Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (JSJK) Director Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf.
SINGAPORE: More than 850 people believed to have scammed victims of over $8.1 million (US$6.08 million) are being investigated following a month-long operation between Singapore and Malaysia police.
KUALA LUMPUR: A 42-year-old company manager has lost RM2.5mil after falling victim to a cryptocurrency investment scam.
JOHOR BARU: Johor police are investigating two separate online investment scams that left two victims — a teacher and a surveyor — out of a combined RM102,024.
JOHOR BARU: A 63-year-old former engineer fell victim to an online cryptocurrency investment scam, incurring a staggering loss of RM9.4mil retirement savings.
PETALING JAYA: A retired woman lost RM2mil after being duped by an investment scheme promising good returns.
JOHOR BARU: A 65-year-old e-hailing driver lost more than RM147,000 after falling victim to an investment scam he discovered on social media.
The trial date for Malone Lam, the Singaporean man charged in a US court with stealing and laundering over US$230 million (RM1.015 billlion) in cryptocurrency last year, has been set for October 6.
A Thai man who worked in an office building in Poipet has admitted laundering money for more than 70 call centre gangs, the police's Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) said on Monday (March 10).
SEREMBAN: The number of scams reported in Negri Sembilan in the first two months of this year has seen a marked increase, with 526 cases reported involving losses totaling some RM21.2mil.
JOHOR BARU: A real estate agent here has lost over RM130,000 after falling prey to a cryptocurrency investment scam.
KUANTAN: An accountant and a retired teacher lost RM414,902.67 after falling victim to investment scams promising lucrative returns last month.
Scam victims in Singapore lost S$1.1 billion in 2024, marking a record high amount of losses suffered in a single year.
KUALA LUMPUR: Five individuals believed to be mule account holders were detained in connection with a forex investment scam.
They sat in call centres in Montreal and targeted older Americans, claiming to be grandchildren in need of bail money after an arrest. In all, federal prosecutors said, more than two dozen Canadians defrauded hundreds of vulnerable Americans out of US$21mil (RM93.17mil) over three years in what authorities called a "Grandparent Scam".
ISKANDAR PUTERI: A raid at an apartment in Tanjung Kupang here led the police to discover an online video game call centre scam that targeted unsuspecting gamers from across Southeast Asia.
One of the scams with cryptocurrency has been identified as "pig butchering," where individuals are solicited online to invest in fake cryptocurrency schemes.
