Beware & Protect Yourself 08 (Feb 24 - Dec 25)

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Insect eggs and maggots are crawling all over the clothes.
Second-hand clothes are sold as new products.
A monthly income of at least 500,000 yuan.
China has launched a "live broadcast fraud"

蟲卵.蛆爬滿衣服 二手衣當新品賣 月入至少50萬 中國掀"直播詐欺"｜記者 姚懷真｜【國際大現場】20240523｜三立新聞台

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgkbS3xc2Jg&t=3s

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Senior citizens lose half a billion ringgit to online fraud over 3 years

This involved 5,533 victims, or 6.4% of the 86,266 online scam victims recorded during the period, with overall losses amounting to RM2.7 billion.

Source: Bernama

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/categ ... r-3-years/

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RM300mil lost to land fraud

By FARIK ZOLKEPLI

A total of 489 land scam cases were reported in the past three years with almost RM300mil in losses recorded.

As of May 19, 74 cases had been reported so far this year involving RM60.6mil in losses.

In the latest case, a 69-year-old businessman lodged a report on the illegal transfer of ownership over three plots of land in Gombak on May 22.

Several factors have contributed to land fraud cases, including buyers’ lack of knowledge on land sales, not following procedures and laws, shortcomings of land office personnel, as well as mistakes by lawyers.

Source: The Star

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/ ... e=smartech

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New Hong Kong scams using bogus online customer service staff cheat people out of RM114mil in less than five months

By SAMMY HEUNG

Fraudsters posing as customer support staff at online service platforms have swindled Hongkongers out of about HK$190mil (RM114mil or US$24.3mil) since January, with police saying they have spotted an increase in cases.

“They claimed the victim had wrongly bought a chargeable service and, if the victim did not immediately follow the instructions to cancel the related service, they would be charged or their account would be frozen, as an excuse to coerce the victim into transferring funds and stealing their money.”

Source: The Star

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-ne ... ive-months

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Singapore credit and debit cardholders report multiple unauthorised charges from ChatGPT, Apple

Source: Straits Times

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ ... tgpt-apple

[winston]

China scammer uses AI to impersonate victim’s friend, steal $823,000

A scammer in China used artificial intelligence (AI) to pose as a businessman’s trusted friend and convince him to hand over millions of yuan.

Source: Straits Times

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east- ... n=addtoany

[behappyalways]

How Much Money Is Lost To Cybercrime?
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/ho ... cybercrime

[winston]

Retiree savings of almost RM5mil wiped out by scammers

By JUSTIN ZACK

The victim, aged 63, had started investing her money after she responded to an advertisement on Facebook.

"She was then added to a WhatsApp group and told to open a Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Hub investment account to invest in local shares.

"The victim was promised profits between 11% and 13% of her investments and that the rate would increase over time".

Once 'profits' from her investments reached around RM11.3mil, she tried to cash it out but found that no money had been deposited into her bank account.

Source: The Star

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/ ... y-scammers

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Woman defrauded of over RM160,000 in Apple hack scam, US police said

By GRACE OPINKER

Police said the woman was browsing on her iPad when “she got a full-screen popup informing her that her Apple account had been hacked”, with a link to click for “rectifying the situation”.

After clicking the link, the woman received a phone call from “Anthony Brown” with “Apple Security”.

“He thanked her for acting so promptly to rectify the situation and her asked her what bank she uses,” police said. “She told him and he told her that she was going to transfer her to a ‘secure line’ to speak with someone from her bank.”

“‘Garrett’ took over the call and told her it looked like US$35,000 (RM164,360) had been withdrawn from her account to purchase child pornography in Russia and China,” police said.

Source: The Times, Munster, Ind./Tribune News Service

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-ne ... e=smartech

[behappyalways]

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