Sentul cops bust scam call centre targeting UK victims

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A scam call centre in Kuala Lumpur that targeted victims from the United Kingdom has been busted in a police raid.  Sentul OCPD Asst Comm Ahmad Sukarno Mohd Zahari told a press conference on Thursday (Feb 8) that police arrested seven men and a woman, and seized nine computers, 19 mobile phones, two routers, two modems, a keyring and an access card to the unit.  Read more at http://tinyurl.com/yedh8p68  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 The first case is related to the arrest and abduction of a calling centre.

00:07 A bit of a lie for a fake job offer.

00:11 The IPD Sentul Commercial Investigation Department has launched an operation

00:17 around the area under the IPD Sentul administration

00:20 to detect and investigate the premises that are used as calling centres.

00:26 According to the information, on 6 February 2024,

00:32 a police force from the IPD Sentul Commercial Investigation Department

00:36 made an arrest and abduction of 7 local residents and 1 woman.

00:43 The local residents are aged between 16 and 28 years old.

00:48 In two condominium units in the Wahyu Park area, Jinjang, Kuala Lumpur,

00:55 the police managed to seize 6 sets of computers,

00:59 13 mobile phones, 2 router units, 2 modems,

01:05 1 lock system and 1 access card to the condominium units.

01:11 Initial investigations found that this syndicate has been carrying out a fake job offer

01:17 that does not exist and is harming the victims in the United Kingdom.

01:22 This syndicate will send a short message through WhatsApp

01:28 containing a job address in a message to the people of the United Kingdom

01:34 using the United Kingdom telephone number.

01:38 After the victims replied and stated that they were interested in the job offer,

01:44 the victims were asked to register their account in the V88 group seller.

01:52 In the group, the victims were directed to complete tasks such as

01:59 like advertising for holiday packages and payment of deposits in USDT cryptocurrency.

02:09 The victims were offered a commission of 0.5% to 5% for each successful task.

02:18 The syndicate will provide a receipt that has been modified to assure the victims

02:24 that the commission payment has been made.

02:27 The case was investigated under section 420 paragraph 511 of the Penal Code.

02:34 All suspects were brought to the Magistrate's Office and in Pohon Riman

02:40 for 4 days until 10th February.

02:48 The police have provided information related to the fraud

02:54 and can be forwarded to the DTC at 0340482222.

03:05 We believe that the syndicate has just been operated.

03:09 From the documents that we have,

03:14 the estimated fraud is more or less 3,000 USD per day.

03:21 So, the syndicate will take the opportunity to find a time for the fraud.

03:28 So, the estimated fraud is 3,000 USD per day.

03:36 Have you contacted the Police UK?

03:42 We have been conducting our investigations to find more of the syndicate's network

03:55 if it is located in another location in Malaysia.

04:00 So, the sequence of our investigations

04:05 will probably be connected with the foreign side to ascertain the time involved.

04:13 For more information, visit www.fema.gov.uk

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