PETALING JAYA: A total of 169 civil servants are unable to receive their monthly salaries as their accounts have been classified as being involved in .
In the 1990s, when cybercafés were a booming business and most people were starting to have regular access to the internet, an email commonly found in most inboxes was from a Nigerian prince, claiming that in order to smuggle a large sum of money out of his country, he needed your help to transfer some money to another account. In return, you were promised a generous kickback.
SYNDICATES are offering about RM1,000 to buy ATM cards and the associated bank accounts to be used to launder ill-gotten gains, Sin Chew Daily reported.
The public has been reminded not to be easily influenced by get-rich-quick schemes or risk-free schemes that promise unrealistically high returns to avoid falling victim to scams by irresponsible parties
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