IT experts: Brace for more weird calls


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PETALING JAYA: Expect more cold calls and random text messages if your data has been breached.

You will receive messages offering you property, “loans” and credit for online casinos, or phone calls claiming that you owe a bank RM5,000 or a stranger telling you that your relative was caught for a drug-related offence.

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