KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — Police have confirmed receiving 399 reports concerning alleged Umrah package frauds by a local company between January 1 and yesterday, involving 1,614 pilgrims nationwide and causing over RM14 million in losses.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 — The police, Commercial Crime Investigation Department, investigated an average of 15 non-existent investment cases daily from January until October this year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 — A company director suffered losses amounting to RM7.1 million after falling victim to a cryptocurrency investment scam in July.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 — A total of 125,169 police reports received so far this year involved various commercial crimes, with RM1.7 billion in total losses.

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 25 — A father and son were charged in the Sessions Court today with 24 counts each of cheating the Sabah government by not declaring the actual proceeds of gold bar sales in an invoice, which caused RM1.3 million in royalty losses.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 — A total of 3,150 social media posts containing elements of fraud and phishing were blocked by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) from Jan 1 to Sept 30 this year, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 — A business consultant pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court today to 15 counts of cheating involving over RM300,000 of Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra) funds three years ago.

PETALING JAYA, Sept 26 — The Communications and Digital Ministry is discussing with the Prime Minister’s Department (PMD) to bring a cabinet memorandum on setting up a National Anti-Scam Task Force in Bank Negara Malaysia to curb online scams.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 — Two contractors pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to a charge of cheating a school’s board of governors concerning repair work of facilities at the school worth RM875,000 three years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 — The existing Malaysian laws related to cybercrime need to be reviewed by including the element of fraud through computer software and devices.

IPOH, Aug 27 — A government retiree lost RM186,450 after being duped by a phone scam last Thursday (Aug 24), Taiping district police chief ACP Razlam Ab Hamid said.

ALOR SETAR, Aug 23 — The implementation of the ‘Op Beras Putih Tempatan’ (Op BPT) by the government to combat irregularities in the sale of rice by changing the packaging or label of local white rice (BPT) to imported white rice (BPI), is seen as protecting the people from being cheated.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 16 — The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry (MAFS) has launched an operation dubbed Op Beras Putih Tempatan (Op BPT), which focuses on inspecting and enforcing regulations on commercial rice mills and rice wholesalers.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug  15 — The Securities Commission of Malaysia (SC) has been urged to speed up its investigations on fraud cases involving several companies with losses of almost RM1 billion as there has yet to be any action after complaints were lodged since April.

IPOH, Aug 14 — A woman lecturer lost half a million ringgit after she was panicked by a fraud syndicate over the phone and finally hung up — after RM537,659.89 was siphoned to be exact.

TAWAU, Aug 7 — Two company owners believed to have used fake documents for cheating to secure maintenance work worth over RM1.1 million were arrested by Sabah’s Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 — A former employee of a car sales company was charged in two Magistrate's Court today with cheating three individuals of RM37,977 in transactions over car purchases.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 28 — Banks in Malaysia continue to adapt and improve banking security features, in line with Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) five key measures to combat financial fraud.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — The chief executive officer of an event management company pleaded not guilty at the Magistrate’s Court today to a charge of cheating a woman in connection with the Hooray X Fest Raya sales festival two months ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 – The Personal Data Protection Act 2010 needs to be amended to prevent personal data from being stolen and used in fraud, said Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil.