MCMC has received 3,398 public complaints related to online fraud

Police had developed an application called “SemakMule” to identify accounts used by scammers

Annuar Musa said MCMC has blocked phishing sites and terminated prepaid mobile phones to protect the people from online fraud. (Bernama Picture)

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has received 3,398 public complaints related to online fraudulent activities from last year till July 31 this year, reported FMT.

In a written answer in the Dewan Rakyat, communications and multimedia minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said all complaints would be referred to the relevant agencies for further action under their jurisdictions.

“In addition, among the proactive measures taken by MCMC is by blocking access to phishing sites. From 2020 until July 31, a total of 960 phishing sites have been blocked under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998,” he said.

Annuar said these restrictions were placed based on complaints from the public as well as joint monitoring efforts by banking institutions through the internet banking task force led by Bank Negara.

He also noted that as of August, a total of 1,488,092 prepaid mobile phone numbers were found to have dubious registration details.

Annuar said of the total, 989,071 had been terminated and 488,847 updated with valid information, while 10,174 were being terminated.

He added that police had developed an application called “SemakMule” to identify accounts used by scammers.

Annuar said a Facebook account called Cyber Crime Alert Royal Malaysia Police was also created to warn the public about the threat of fraud or cyber crime.

He added that the issue would not be categorised as organised crime as Chapter 6B Section 130U of the Penal Code states that organised crime is more related to violent crimes investigated by the criminal investigation department.

He was responding to a question by Lim Lip Eng (PH-Kepong), who had asked about the number of online fraud cases in 2020 and 2021 and measures taken by the government in dealing with the rise in such cases during the movement control orders.

Lim had also asked if the status of those involved in online fraud would be categorised as organised crime.

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Prepared by Nazura Othman,
Permadu Malaysia Senior Reporter



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