PDRM's Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) has released a music video to raise awareness on scams. That's great. The trouble is the video itself is instead more concerned with portraying the police doing their jobs.
To the songwriters’ credit, they’ve also done a good job of integrating other languages, although they could’ve also used an English proofreader for the last refrain: “let’s fight scammer [sic] together.”
But the video is less interested in showing the dangers of scams and instead more concerned with cramming gratuitous footage of police officers and higher-ups.
It seems that whoever signed off on the video was obsessed with showing the police doing their jobs than anything of actual importance. Watch it without audio or the subtitles and—save for the opening scene that showed a pair of victims—you’d be forgiven for thinking it was actually asupercut. And really, why the show of force for a video targeted at scam victims, not the scammers themselves?
Let me make myself quite clear—I am in no way belittling the efforts of the force in bringing down scam artists. I also believe education and raising awareness is the best way to prevent unsuspecting civilians from falling prey to unscrupulous individuals and companies, especially given the amount ofBut if that were truly the objective of this video—and not to promote the greatness of PDRM and the CCID—then those responsible for it have completely failed their intended brief.
If you’re actually looking for advice, here it is: if a money or job offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Legitimate authorities and companies won’t rush you to make payments and will never ask for details like your passwords, OTP or ATM PIN number over the phone, so never give them out.to reach the National Scam Response Centre and file a report.
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