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Malaysian fraud syndicates are using social media and AI to target teenagers with complex scams involving child sexual exploitation, extortion, and illegal content sales. One tactic involves luring teens with 'sugar mummy' offers on TikTok, coercing them into sharing explicit content, and then extorting them. Even after payment, the content is often sold online. Scammers also duplicate legitimate merchant ads, leading to the merchants' accounts being frozen when fraud is reported. The National Scam Response Centre (NSRC) now operates 24/7 to combat these evolving cybercrimes.
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