KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 28 -- Police have crippled eight online scam call centres operating out of residential units in the capital, arresting 57 people - most of them foreign nationals - in raids carried out between November 10 and 14.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Fadil Marsus said the operations, led by the Commercial Crime Investigation Department with support from district and state units, targeted syndicate hubs preying on victims locally and abroad.

"We arrested 57 individuals, comprising five locals and 52 foreigners, who were working as operators for these syndicates," he said in a statement today

"They were running illegal call centres from rented homes around Kuala Lumpur."

Fadil said initial investigations showed the groups w...