QuickCheck: Are scammers impersonating ministerial officers to deceive the public?

PETALING JAYA: With the public growing ever more paranoid and cautious over the possibility of getting scammed, there has been talk that scammers have begun to impersonate public servants in their schemes.

There have been countless claims across social media of people claiming to have been called by telephone numbers of “officials” from a ministry only to become scam victims.