Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 31 -- Over 2,000 members of scam syndicates have been arrested in a nationwide crackdown over the past month, Malaysia's police said on Thursday.
Rusdi Isa, director of Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department, told a press briefing that 1,303 people were nabbed from Sept. 22 to 28, while other operations resulted in the arrest of 790 owners of alleged mule accounts involved in e-commerce fraud.
Rusdi said the operations were carried out in conjunction with the launch of the National Scam Response Center, aimed at combating commercial crimes involving the use of fake accounts to receive money from online fraud.
He added that 30 others were arrested on suspicion of directly being involved in operating an e-c...