Reject ‘NSRC official’ calls


PETALING JAYA: With about RM6.8mil lost over just four months to the latest tactic by scammers who posed as National Scam Response Centre (NSRC) officials, banks are urging the public to simply hang up if they received such calls.

Before this, scammers used to pose as cops and officials of enforcement agencies to deceive their victims into believing they had landed on the wrong side of the law, supposedly over crimes such as money laundering, drugs and human trafficking.

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