YOURSAY | 'Amend the law to charge those involved with much heavier penalties.' Scams: MP wants IGP to lead charge, banks to be held responsible New Era Fairplay 2024: Almost every day I get a call purportedly from a bank’s credit card centre asking me to approve a credit card transaction by pressing one or if I want to speak to a customer care executive to press nine. Each time it is a different mobile number.
I have reported this to the bank through the authorised landline. Besides asking me to not respond, it looks as if nothing much is being done. Now I use a caller tracing application but some escape as the number may not have been reported.
On other occasions, the report shows how many reports have been lodged against a number, but still nothing has been done. Are the telcos complicit in this attempt to get a market share of SIM card sales? Why can’t the telcos block these numbers? The most frequent calls are from numbers starting with 010, 011, and 014. Telcos should also be held responsible for this besides the banks.
All said and done, eternal vigilance and education are the only way to escape these scams, but unfortunately, there are still many who are vulnerable. Anon25: What DAP national chairperson Lim Guan Eng suggests is extremely impractical. Better to follow some simple rules.
Ignore all incoming calls that do not identify the caller. Mazhilamani: Many have been getting scam calls from all kinds of people and businesses. I have been getting regular calls .
