Major bust: Police parading the two hackers nabbed over the scam involving millions in Covid-19 aid intended for US citizens left jobless by the pandemic, at a press conference in Surabaya. — AFP
Two Indonesian hackers have been arrested over an international scam in which US$60mil (RM247mil) was stolen from a Covid-19 aid programme helping Americans left jobless by the pandemic, authorities said.
Text messages were sent to 20 million Americans directing them to more than a dozen fake US government websites, police in the South-East Asian nation said late on Thursday.
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