KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian and Chinese police have crippled a scam syndicate that had caused victims in the two countries to incur about RM13mil in losses. “We conducted the operations simultaneously on Dec 12 with our counterparts in China and caught a total of 140 suspects in Malaysia and China,” said Bukit Aman Commercial Crimes Investigation Department director Comm Datuk Amar Singh. He said the scammers would call up victims in Malaysia and China and claim to be from the bank. The anxious victims would follow the scammers' instructions and deposit funds into a bank account, not realising the fraud. Comm Amar said the syndicate would contact interested pundits via social media and add them to a gambling group.

Source: The Star December 19, 2017 05:37 UTC