News & Reviews:   scammer

The Malaysian founder and CEO of Singapore-based Replyr.ai, Dylan Tan, recently took to the Entrepreneurs and Startups in Malaysia Facebook group to share a new chatbot he created that is aimed at fighting scammers. An AI chatbot that will “infinitely waste scammers’ time on WhatsApp”, it’s hilariously named “Scammers On Hold AI” or “SOHAI”.

Have you ever received an email threatening you to deposit a certain amount of money to avoid being exposed of surfing sites you shouldn't be or saying you've been hacked or worse? If you have, then you could be a victim of email spoofing.

Read on to understand more about email spoofing, whether or not you should worry about such blackmail/extortion emails and what you can do about it.

The Ministry of Communications and Digital (KKD) has revealed that 410.59 million unsolicited Short Message Services (SMS) were blocked in the first 9 months of this year. Its Deputy Minister, Teo Nie Ching further revealed that 19 million SMS containing hyperlinks were blocked from 2 May until September 2023.

From time to time, we would get scam messages and calls on our phones. While you could always install the Truecaller app, it doesn't work for WhatsApp which scammers tend to use nowadays. However, that could change in the future.

The Communications and Digital Ministry (KKD) has advised the public to beware of suspicious calls in which irresponsible quarters are using KKD’s name to commit scams. The modus operandi of these scammers is to call unsuspecting victims and claim that their phone number is blacklisted for being involved in criminal acts.

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.

In this digital age, there are plenty of ways to scam a person. Whether it be pretending to be another person, sending a parcel scam message or directing you to a fake Maybank website, scammers have found a new way of scamming even more people by having a fake app.

As you might've noticed, online shopping has become one of the beloved features on Facebook nowadays. Compared to platforms like Shopee and Lazada, buying things on Facebook is relatively riskier as it doesn't have a comprehensive online shopping system. Therefore, we have come across different kinds of news reporting how the buyers fell into the traps set by scammers. Today, we are here to share with you what are the ways or methods that you can follow when you want to purchase products on Facebook to avoid being scammed. 

During this Conditional Movement Control Order period, you probably have heard complaints from your friends and family about several "online finance gurus" ads appearing on Facebook as well as YouTube. Unfortunately, times are hard for those who are struggling financially and apparently for scammed from these scammers. But there is good news though, their advertising profiles are being removed by Facebook.