JOHOR BARU, June 2 — A complete of 423 circumstances involving industrial crimes, with losses totalling RM15.6 million, have been recorded in Johor all through final month (Could).
Johor police chief CP M Kumar stated the quantity had elevated in comparison with 273 circumstances, with a lack of RM6.88 million, recorded in Could final 12 months.
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He stated circumstances of fraud have been the very best contributor which was 373 circumstances or 88 per cent thus recording the very best variety of complete losses reported this 12 months.
“These fraud circumstances comprise 101 circumstances involving on-line purchases; non-existent transactions (65 circumstances); ‘telephone scams’ (42); non-existent loans (45); and different fraud circumstances (42),” he stated in an announcement at this time.
Kumar stated his crew was dedicated to continously finishing up face-to-face industrial crime consciousness campaigns in addition to by means of social media.
The general public can be suggested to be extra vigilant and conscious of present traits in industrial crime to keep away from changing into victims of fraud, along with acquiring data associated to the modus operandi of business crime by means of the Industrial Crime Investigation Division’s (CCID) official accounts @cybercrimealert and @JSJK PDRM on Fb, Instagram and TikTok.
“We additionally steered that the general public use the CCID infoline and Semak Mule service earlier than making any cost,” he added. — Bernama
