M'sian delivery riders nabbed for suspected roles in cross-border ah long pressure tactics
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have confirmed the arrest of 35 people, including Malaysian food delivery riders hired by loan shark syndicates to allegedly carry out extortion activities in Singapore.
Civil servant duped of nearly RM100,000 in online investment scams
KUALA TERENGGANU: A female civil servant in Terengganu lost RM99,276 after falling victim to two fraudulent online investment schemes.
Adults preying on minors via Telegram bot Leomatch may face jail, caning in Singapore
SINGAPORE: Adults caught having sexual communication with minors and meeting them in real life may face sexual grooming charges, which carry a sentence of caning and imprisonment.
US seizes Telegram channel recruiting Filipinos to scam hubs
The United States (US) government had seized a Telegram channel being used to recruit Filipinos and other nationals into a scam hub operation in Cambodia under false promises of high-paying job.
It’s actually no work and all play
PETALING JAYA: Cases of online job scams targeting youths have nearly doubled, rising from roughly two cases a day in 2024 to nearly four per day in 2025.
Telegram users in Russia report outage as app faces crackdown
he popular messaging service Telegram is facing a blackout in Russia. Users reported that the service's app and web versions were inaccessible on Monday, with rumours having previously circulated of a full ban from April 1.
Major social media, messaging platforms now deemed licensed in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Major internet messaging and social media platforms with at least eight million users in Malaysia are now deemed licensed under the country's communications laws, placing them formally under local regulatory oversight, says Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil.
‘Some are just kids’: Victims of alleged S$700,000 Pokemon card scam in Singapore band together for support
SINGAPORE: Kenny Ang thought he was making just another purchase of Pokemon cards from a reseller in January. But his order never arrived.
Eight feared dead after a bus with Chinese tourists sinks into Russia's Lake Baikal
Seven Chinese tourists and a bus driver are feared dead after a tourist bus driving across a frozen stretch of Lake Baikal in Russia's Siberia.
India rejects any allegations of involvement in Pakistan bombing, foreign ministry says
India said it rejected "any and every" allegation of involvement in a bombing at a mosque in Islamabad on Friday, that killed at least 31 people, saying such claims were baseless and pointless.
