Have you ever being approached by an urgent message going through your e-mail? Asking you to update your banking account password. I have been experiencing this but I always know this is just a fraud made by the scammer. I have posted before about this scammer through my blog and hopefully you have read it. Usually when someone got this e-mail, he/she will then being asked to fill up a form including with their banking account number. Then the scammer will sent a link that needed to be updated with the victim. The scammer used "KEY LOGGER" to steal the victim password and account number. The scammer then made it easy taking your money out from your bank account by doing simple money transfer to his/her or his/her friends account. We need to be careful with this scam activity. I hope that all the Sabahan alert with this so-called internet fraud. Continue reading below passage.....
The public should not disclose their bank particulars to any quarters to avoid being cheated. In giving the advice, City Deputy Police Chief Supt. M. Chandra said about 10 cases have been recorded this year that involved disclosure of bank accounts that led to loss of money. "Majority of the cases occurred through the Internet where the account holders had registered for online banking and they entertained requests and questions from quarters that claimed to be from the bank." Chandra said this during a "Meet the Public" session held at Wisma Kosan in Likas, Saturday.
In addition, he said, these people would pretend to be bank officers and make contact via handphones by calling and sending short messaging services (SMSes) to obtain the account particulars. "The best way to address this kind of suspicious requests is to verify the request with the respective bank. "Do not entertain immediately those requests as it would open the way for perpetrators to commit commercial crimes," Chandra said. On another matter, he said when it comes to lending of huge sum of money, the public should have a black and white documentation to avoid problems later.
He said this in reference to a case involving an elderly woman who sought police advice at the programme, saying she had lent more than RM20,000 to her friend who has since been missing. Chandra said he advised the victim to lodge a police report so that police can investigate whether there are cheating elements in the case.
On a complaint by a resident in Kg Likas about traffic jams during the time of Maghrib prayers and school children going home, he assured that several policemen would be sent there during peak hours to regulate traffic flow. Also present in the programme were City Traffic and Public Order Chief, DSP Peter Umbuas and senior officers.
Posted By: Harry George
Sources: Daily Express
Picture: Daily Express online.
