Don't fall for scammers' new e-reporting trick, warns CCID chief

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The 42-year-old married businessman Adrian Wong in 2010, and they share a 13-year-old son named Ashton.

KUALA LUMPUR: Scammers are using a new tactic of making video calls to victims, purportedly to help them lodge police reports online before fleecing them of money.

"A total of 14 police reports have been lodged this year with losses reaching RM960,500," he told a press conference on Wednesday . "Through the video call, the victim will be convinced to lodge an online report and interact with a bogus police officer who is standing against a background mimicking a police station.

 

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