News & Reviews:   online scam

You would think that most Malaysians would know how to dodge a potential online scam, but according to the Malaysian police force, that's the opposite. Just recently, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani told the media that online scams were increasing instead. 

From time to time, we would hear news of how Malaysians get scammed online. In this news, a researcher from a Slovak internet security company, ESET, Lukáš Štefanko made a discovery and detected many fake websites are disguised as legitimate services with similar domain names in Malaysia.

Online scams are a common issue that we have to face daily and it has come to our attention that scammers are learning to send direct messages to your profile. Shopee just highlighted on their Facebook post that there's new Parcel Scam and this is what you should do if you encounter one.

In this modern internet age, one might think that it's almost impossible to get scammed online if there's a too-good-to-be-true deal. Not for these two Malaysians though, who recently got conned and lost a total of RM6800. How in the world did this happen? Well, take a read below.