Putrajaya cops get 10 online fraud cases monthly

PUTRAJAYA: Police here on average receive 10 monthly reports of online fraud cases with most of the victims being women, including civil servants and housewives.

Putrajaya OCPD Asst Comm Rosly Hasan said the victims were usually duped by phone calls where the callers claimed they were from a bank, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission or from the courts, apart from the Macau and parcel scams.

“The total losses usually involve tens of thousands of ringgit,” he told reporters after the 212th Police Day celebration at the Putrajaya district police headquarters here yesterday.

ACP Rosly said some online fraud cases had been resolved with the suspects being arrested in the Klang Valley, while there were several others still under investigation.

On other crimes such as thefts and house break-ins in the country’s administrative centre, Rosly said they were under control.

However, he added that crime-prevention operations here had been intensified ahead of Ramadan because based on previous trends, there seemed to be an increase in such crimes (thefts and break-ins) as the festive season approaches. In Kuching, Sarawak Deputy Police Commissioner Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Dzuraidi Ibrahim said violent crime cases in the state dropped by 12.63% to 173 cases from January to March 20 this year, as compared with 198 cases for the corresponding period last year.

However, he said the crime index rate in the state rose to 1,318 cases from 1,254 cases last year.

“Generally the crime situation in the state is at a manageable level,” he told reporters after Police Day celebration at the Sarawak police contingent headquarters.