News about scam

PETALING JAYA (May 28): Berjaya Corp Bhd founder and tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan (pictured) has lodged a report with the cops and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) over an online scam making use of his name and image, The Star reported today.

PETALING JAYA (May 27): A viral message circulating on WhatsApp on a list of hotels in Kuala Lumpur and Penang available for sale is a hoax.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 9): The Beijing Medical Products Administration denied the credibility of a COVID-19 home testing kit and added there are no authorized home version of the test yet, China Daily reported today.

  The first clue that Rohina Husseini found that the home she lived in had been stolen came in the form of a piece of junk mail.

PUTRAJAYA (Nov 21): The Immigration Department said it arrested nearly 1,000 people when it busted the largest online scam syndicate believed to be run by Chinese nationals in the country.

JOHOR BAHRU (Oct 1): Two men in their 60s lost thousands of ringgit to conmen who promised lands that did not exist here in two separate cases.

JOHOR BARU (March 29): Johor state government says that it is not ruling out the possibility that staff of Johor Housing Secretariat (SUK Perumahan) conspired with scammer to fleece those who want to buy Johor Affordable Homes (RMMJ).

JOHOR BAHRU (March 27): More than 70 people have lost what could amount to over RM910,000 to scammers who promised to secure them Johor Affordable Homes (RMMJ).

BATU PAHAT (March 11): Eight victims, mostly businessmen, discovered they had been cheated of more than RM300,000 in total over a land scam.

SEREMBAN (September 5): A woman who claimed to be a Datuk, advertised services of building affordable homes on Facebook, and defrauded one man of RM60,000, has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.