There are also other scams, such as the online friend’s family member suddenly becoming sick, and the scammer urgently needs money for medication. theSun theSundaily Scammers Online ScamAlert news Malaysia
Many scammers exploiting social platforms hiding behind fake names and profiles to scam vulnerable users.: Friendship has always been among the rewarding aspect of one’s life. From the days when people made more reliable connections through face-to-face interactions, to the current era where sometimes faceless and nameless friends are made online.
LGMS Berhad chairman and cybersecurity expert, Fong Choong Fook, said online friendships can only be more reliable when netizens learn to discern someone’s intentions instead of blindly believing everything they see or read on the screen. Fong said online scammers will typically spend months building friendships by having daily conversations with targeted victims to obtain their trust before scamming them.
“The Customs department scam is also quite common, where online ‘friends’ send something through parcels and claim that Customs officials have held back the item, so the victim needs to pay someone to retrieve the parcel. Meanwhile, Universiti Sains Malaysia Assoc Prof Dr Selvakumar Manickam, who is an expert in Artificial Intelligence and the director of its National Advanced IPv6 Centre, a centralised learning point for lecturers and students, said people should be wise in choosing their online friends since a poor choice of friends could cause monetary loss and potentially compromise safety too.
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