Police: Over 90,000 online fraud cases from 2017-2021, involving RM3.3bil in losses


The exponential growth of online scammers is being driven by their recruitment, which includes former victims turned scammers, resulting in millions in losses. — Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash

A total of 98,607 online fraud cases involving losses totalling RM3.3bil was reported nationwide from 2017 until 2021.

Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) assistant director (telecommunications criminal investigation) Supt Rozeni Ismail said during that period more than 30,000 individuals were detained and from the number, 25,000 individuals were charged in court.

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