MCMC warns public of fake emails, cash prize scam

PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) stressed that its chairman had never sent any email to the public to help transfer cash prizes from a telecommunications company.

MCMC in a statement Tuesday (MArch 4) said the email purportedly offered to transfer the winning prizes in the form of cash amounting to RM270,000 from the Telekom Malaysia to the bank account of the recipient of the email.