KUALA LUMPUR: Scammers are using a new tactic of making video calls to victims, purportedly to help them lodge police reports online before fleecing them of money.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said 34 police reports were lodged last year involving losses of about RM1mil last year based on this new tactic, dubbed the "e-reporting scam".
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