New Straits Times ran a news report this morning where police said that an estimated RM1.3 billion was lost to commercial crime last year due to greed and weak economy.
One of the modus operandi highlighted in the report, and I think all of us should be aware of, is that scammers would send out a text message to a victim saying that he has made a big dollar purchase via credit card. The message also mentioned a telephone number of "Bank Negara" and urged the victim to call that number if he does not own a credit card.
And surprisingly, even though a lot of these victims do not own a credit card, they still fall prey to this scam because they thought that the number listed in the text message is a real Bank Negara number. A smarter person would have obtained a Bank Negara telephone number from a different source, like the internet on an official Bank Negara website, for example.
Anyway, it never hurts to be extra careful these days because fraud comes to us from all angles.
One of the modus operandi highlighted in the report, and I think all of us should be aware of, is that scammers would send out a text message to a victim saying that he has made a big dollar purchase via credit card. The message also mentioned a telephone number of "Bank Negara" and urged the victim to call that number if he does not own a credit card.
And surprisingly, even though a lot of these victims do not own a credit card, they still fall prey to this scam because they thought that the number listed in the text message is a real Bank Negara number. A smarter person would have obtained a Bank Negara telephone number from a different source, like the internet on an official Bank Negara website, for example.
Anyway, it never hurts to be extra careful these days because fraud comes to us from all angles.
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