NILAI: Police have arrested four foreigners suspected of being involved in online scams targeting locals and Thai nationals.
Nilai OCPD Supt Johari Yahya said a preliminary probe revealed that the suspects used social media accounts on Facebook and Tinder to dupe their victims and have been active for almost two years.
He said the suspects had set up call centres in three houses here to run their online purchase and love scams operations.
"Among others, we seized 24 mobile phones and eight laptops in an operation carried out on Monday (Jan 26)," he said in a statement Wednesday (Jan 28).
Also confiscated from the quartet were six debit cards and three pen drives.
Supt Johari said police obtained an order to remand the suspects for four days until Jan 30.
He said checks on the laptops and mobile phones showed there was evidence the four were involved in the scams using multiple account profiles.
"The four had also admitted they were involved in online scams involving the purchase of laptops and mobile phones as well as love scams since February 2024.
“The six debit cards they had in their possession belonged to other individuals and we believe these were used as mule accounts,” he said.
Johari said two of the suspects failed to produce any travel document while one had an expired passport and the fourth did not have an entry permit on his passport.
The four are being probed under Section 120B of the Penal Code for criminal conspiracy and Section 420 for cheating.
He urged those with information of such illegal activities to contact the district police station at 06-790 4222 or the nearest police station.
