MACC: South-East Asia a cyber-fraud hotspot


All smiles: Azam (fifth left) posing for a group photo at Universiti Teknologi MARA. He was in Sabah to attend the ICTMS 2025 .

KOTA KINABALU: The region is fast becoming a hub for cyber-enabled fraud, with cross-border criminal syndicates exploiting digital platforms and weak governance systems to carry out large-scale financial scams.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki, who disclosed this, said recent investigations, both local and through international collaborations, pointed to a disturbing trend of transnational digital crime networks in South-East Asia.

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