News & Reviews:   scammers

The Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) has today warned Malaysians that it has never appointed any third parties to assist in the recently announced 2022 Special Withdrawal. Taking to its official Facebook account, EPF reminded Malaysians to be careful with fraudulent ads by scammers that are currently widespread on social media.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced that the government has agreed to allow for another EPF withdrawal of up to RM10000 for Malaysians under 55 years old. This would be the fourth EPF withdrawal scheme since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic after i-Lestari, i-Sinar and i-Citra.

Recently, a 61-year-old businesswoman was recently a victim of a scam resulting in her losing more than RM800000. Based on the report, the scammers who were posing a Pos Laju mentioning that they have spotted the victim’s IC and credit card in Sabah. Soon after that, the victim received another call from the police headquarters in Sabah by a representative named Yang Chang, stating that she was involved in a bunch of illegal activities where she could be sentenced to prison if convicted.

Google recently weighed in online via Mark Risher, Senior Director for Account Security, Identity, and Abuse about the current online security COVID-19 situation. On Google’s side, Google Meet, GMail and Google Play Protect for example have mostly built-in automatic protections but there are a number of checkup tools to see if you’re safe or not and the advice on what to do about it. On our part, we’ve seen a marked increase in such scams.

During the Movement Control Order period, the government announced that every Malaysian citizen will get their financial relief fund via Bantuan Prihatin Nasional payment. However, 6 Malaysians have somehow lost nearly RM300,000 to scammers online through an APK installation via WhatsApp. Today, the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) have issued a step by step on how to prevent fro being scammed so here are the steps.