Scammers can easily fool potential victims during a scam call by using personal details like full names, addresses and banking info to scare them into making immediate money transfers. — 123rf.com
The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has reminded netizens to not display banking details such as account numbers on social media as part of a practice to send or receive ‘duit raya’ from strangers online.
On social media platforms such as Twitter, some users have posted their bank account number and other details to ask for duit raya or cash offerings from their followers. Then some users who have successfully transferred duit raya to others would share the bank transaction details as a way of showing that the funds have been transferred.
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