SIBU: Police here have crippled a syndicate of purchasing and renting bank accounts and ATM cards to be used to run Macau scams and rackets involving non-existent loans and investments.
District police chief ACP Zulkipli Suhaili said the Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) had arrested two members of the ‘Jason group’ on Dec 14 following intelligence gathering work on the case since June this year.
“A prior investigation found that the ATM cards were used for online scams such as non-existent money lending, e-commerce, macau scam and fake part-time job offer.
“Following the arrests of the two suspects, 13 ATM cards, 16 sim cards, one identification card of a woman, six smartphones and one Perodua Axia were seized by the police,” said Zulkipli in a statement today (Dec 21).
He also explained the syndicate leader, Jason @ Ah Long, will recruit agents among locals to find people who are interested in renting or selling their bank accounts.
The agents will be paid RM400 to RM500 for each account based on its type and bank.
“Further inspections on the phones found through the Commercial Crime Intelligence System (CCIS) found that there were 11 different accounts.
“The accounts that were being rented are involved in nine open investigations where RM175,013.99 were lost to scams,” he said.
Members of the public are reminded to not provide any details and information of bank accounts to any people or group for the sake of getting more money.
The public can check with the nearest Police Station or check at http://semakmuke.rmp.gov.my, CCID Infoline at 013-2111222, CCID Response Center at 03-26101559 / 03-26101599, Facebook CyberCrimeAlertRMP and Center National Scam Response (NSRC) at 997.
