SHAH ALAM, Aug 15 — The police believe that higher education students are being scammed by online syndicates into providing their account numbers for use as mule accounts.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — Financial planners need to carry out their duty to report any suspicious activities that might be linked to money laundering to the authorities, said Bukit Aman Anti-Money Laundering Criminal Investigation Division assistant director ACP Foo Wei Min.

SHAH ALAM, March 29 — The Selangor police busted a syndicate selling automatic teller machine (ATM) cards for use as mule accounts with the arrest of 16 individuals, including two bank officers, in raids around the Klang Valley and Gombak last week.

BALIK PULAU, July 9 — A 43-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly serving as a mule account holder for an illegal moneylending syndicate in a RM2,676,000 loan transaction involving a businessman.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 12 — Five Nigerians suspected of being involved in ‘Love Scam’ and e-commerce (online purchases) fraud were arrested in a raid at Taman Putra Perdana, in Puchong, on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 — Ten members of a mule account syndicate were arrested in raids by Bukit Aman’s Commercial Crime Investigation Department around Kuala Lumpur and Selangor from November 5 to 10.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 — Over 80,000 mule accounts, owned by those who allowed the accounts to be used by online fraud syndicates, have been unearthed by police from last year until October 9.