Over 1.3 million dubious prepaid phone numbers detected


Saifuddin said a Cyber Crime Committee has been established by the MCMC and PDRM. — Bernama

PETALING JAYA: Between January 2018 and last month, 1,377,862 prepaid lines were registered without valid information, according to the Communications and Multimedia Ministry.

Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said it has terminated 920,217 of those lines and updated the other 457,645 with valid info to prevent the numbers from being used for fraud.

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