KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 — Financial loans that require the borrower to make an upfront payment for its release is typically a scam, the police reiterated today. Amid the rise in personal and business loan scams nationwide from last year, Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID)...
Thursday, 14 Nov 2019 01:02 PM MYTCommercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Seri Mohd Zakaria Ahmad speaks during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur November 14, 2019. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
“I find it entirely unreasonable for these people to fall victim to such scams, it is as if they ignored the amount asked entirely. The latest figures were sharply higher than 2018’s 1,172 cases involving losses of some RM35.9 million were recorded. Throughout 2019, the police have also succeeded in dismantling 20 known syndicates involved in such scams nationwide with 174 individuals further detained.
He said victims would then be asked to submit their financial documents after being instructed to file an online application, all the while in communication with a fake telephone number in order for the syndicate to evade police detection.
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