PETALING JAYA: To date, no Malaysian has been arrested for masterminding an Internet scam.
Though tricks like the black money hoax, Internet lottery rip-off, “e-mail con of deposed autocrat looking for help to smuggle his money out of the country, and more recently, the SMS scam and the cow vaccine swindle are not unheard of here. Most of the scams are believed to be perpetrated by Nigerian, Eastern European and, increasingly, Chinese cartels.
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