Beware of phone scams | Borneo Bulletin Online

James Kon

The Royal Brunei Police Pressure (RBPF) yesterday urged the general public to be additional vigilant and cautious with regard to scams spreading within the nation.

One rip-off includes a telephone name from a person claiming to be a financial institution official, in response to the assertion.

Victims have reportedly obtained calls from unknown numbers together with +1549716557, +5731381453, +8519254502, +5447178375 and +672242334. The callers reportedly have overseas accents.

The modus operandi of the rip-off is to contact the sufferer and introduce himself or herself as a financial institution or legislation enforcement officer. The caller then informs the sufferer about monetary mortgage claims similar to bank card utilization transactions or overdue mortgage funds.

The caller then makes an attempt to acquire the sufferer’s private data supposedly to be checked with their system.

The caller then says he’ll switch the decision to an authorised greater rating officer to additional persuade the sufferer. The assertion stated the scammers try and drive the sufferer to make a big fee instantly to settle the declare, saying in the event that they fail, motion can be taken, similar to issuing a court docket summons or an arrest order.

The RBPF is investigating stories on the scams.

The RBPF urged the general public to not present private and account data to unidentified events, particularly when receiving unknown calls.