Greed the driver of investment scams

I REFER to the reports “Over RM870mil lost to scams” and “MCMC holds awareness programmes on online fraud” (The Star, Aug 12).

While there are genuine cases of ignorance, most investment scams succeed because of one simple factor – greed.

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