Bukit Aman warns of on-line scams providing profitable jobs

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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Fraud syndicates are utilizing social media platforms to supply jobs on-line promising excessive incomes of between RM200 and RM300 a day, warn police.

Bukit Aman Industrial Crime Investigation Division (CCID) director Comm Datuk Mohd Kamarudin Md Din mentioned the syndicate targetted these on the lookout for part-time work to spice up their revenue or housewives.

“As many are working from residence and are affected by Covid-19, this syndicate is utilizing this modus operandi.

“To draw potential victims, they use names of massive firms like Lazada, Shopee, Seng Heng and Carousell,” he mentioned in a press release on Monday (Nov 1).

He mentioned the authorities and the affected firms had issued many statements denying involvement in such job affords.

Comm Mohd Kamarudin mentioned the syndicates would use media social platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram and Fb to supply jobs as firm brokers to buy objects on e-commerce platforms to spice up scores.

“The sufferer would obtain Whatsapp messages and be given a hyperlink to decide on the objects that wanted to be bought and got a number of assignments that wanted to be accomplished inside a sure interval.

“The sufferer can even be ordered to ship the images of the chosen objects to the suspect, who will then order the sufferer to make the fee for the chosen objects to the mule account offered by the suspect,” he mentioned.

To persuade the sufferer that the job was actual, the sufferer could be advised that each buy made could be repaid together with a further fee of between 5 to eight per cent.

The CCID has established a particular process power to analyze these scams and to trace and arrest these accountable, he mentioned.

Comm Mohd Kamarudin mentioned that the division arrested 168 people in relation to such scams, which have resulted in losses amounting to RM4.6mil between January and Aug 31 this 12 months.- Bernama



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