Police in Malaysia say nearly 20 people, including 13 Japanese, were detained over a suspected scam operation that apparently targeted Japan.
The police announced that investigators detained 19 foreign nationals when they searched two locations believed to be the bases of a group of fraudsters in and around the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on May 13.
The 13 Japanese are alleged to have made phone calls or sent texts to people in Japan, and had them transfer money to designated accounts by pretending to be police officers in Osaka and through other means.
by sebitian
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Not “alleged “, they DID all of that.
Can they also get the scammers that target KDDI customers? At first I picked up and called them out on their scam upon which they’ll hang up. Then I just blocked them. Now I let the AI scan take the call so at least they have to pay for the attempt, but I’d rather they arrest these mofos and make them regret their life choices.
I get several calls a month from “NTT finance” or “TEPCO” about unpaid bills and imminent phone/internet/electricity disconnection. Never tried to play but did some scambaiting on Instagram to the points of getting mule details. For the 5 mules I got, they were all Japanese and verified the accounts existed (you can make phony transfer at ATMs and cancel the transaction at the very end).
Scams on Instagram now are mainly the old highjacking accounts to post crypto stuff.
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Prison in malaysia is not like prison in japan, the philosopy of prison in malaysia is to throw away all of comfortness and goodness of life so that they will think twice to do crime again after that.