Archive for 'scam'

Major SMS scam ring busted

Federal police have busted a major SMS scam ring that has been duping people using big corporation names since 2006 with the arrest of 26 people at two premises in Tawau, Sabah, last week. Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Koh Hong Sun, said the syndicate was believed to be responsible for 2,656 cases [...]

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Over 6k loan shark mobile phone numbers terminated

The government has traced and barred 6,163 mobile phone numbers of loan sharks or Ah Long found on numerous stickers, posters, advertisements and business cards during operations nationwide last year. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Abu Seman Yusop said the authorities have managed to detect the persons behind the numbers and cancelled the numbers with the [...]

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Blackberry Users: Information on your device could be at risk!

If you are using a Blackberry for work or personal reasons, you should be cautious on what you do with it. No matter if it is a software upgrade from your mobile operator. Recently, late June last month, United Arab Emirates’ largest telecommunications operator Etisalat told its 145,000 BlackBerry customers to “upgrade” the software on [...]

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Celcom to stop campaign, refund customers

Based on what happened earlier to the 100days 100cars campaign, MCMC has instructed Celcom to do the following: A-cease immediately the contest “Celcom 100 Days 100 Cars”; B-refund all subscribers that have participated in the contest all sum charged by Celcom; C-inform all its subscribers on the Direction made in paragraph (a)and (b) above; and [...]

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Celcom got raided by Jakim (Updated)

Well, not really got “raided” but Jakim “instructed” Celcom to stop its 100days 100cars contest. This is what the CEO of Celcom said when Celcom announced the first winner of the contest that walked away with a Toyota Camry 2.0E 1AZ-FE. “This is the biggest ever promotion Celcom has introduced thus far, and this is [...]

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Will Malaysians be free from SMS spamming?

Since last year, there are hundreds of complaints out there from users who received SMSes or charged for SMS that they never requested, probably there are some thousand of users out there that choose to ignore these SMSes and was not aware that they were charged for it. How long will these carry on? Is [...]

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KTAK: Block spamming NOW!!!!

Energy, Water and Communication Minister has ruled that all Celcos in the country must implement anti-spamming and anti-spoofing solution by the end of this month. Earlier MCMC has ruled that all prepaid user should have access to their bills by this month. DiGi has done it, but the remaining two telcos seems to be quite. [...]

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