Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – A total of 91% of 271,472 pieces of contents ordered to be taken down by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) issued to social media platform providers have been identified as being related to online scams and gambling.
As reported by Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama, according to Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil, the total contents were recorded between January 1 and May 23.
He said 81% of online gambling content was detected on Facebook, while 58% of online scam content was also on the same platform.
Banks in Malaysia successfully blocked about 1.2 billion MYR (300 million USD) that scammers tried to steal through the banking institutions’ own security mechanisms, he said.
The official note that the situation was very worrying considering that scam syndicates were reported to have defrauded Malaysians involving losses of 2.7 billion MYR last year.
At a press conference after the closing ceremony of the Inter-Agency Retreat on Combatting Online Scam 2026 on May 24, Fahmi said the outcome of the meeting also proposed the establishment of a special committee involving enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, telecommunications companies and banking institutions to strengthen cooperation in combating scam crimes in an integrated and continuous manner.
He said the committee is expected to be formed in two to three weeks after the relevant note was brought to the Cabinet.
According to Fahmi, the move is important to enable new techniques used by scammers, including the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), to be identified more quickly, as well as to ensure that enforcement actions could be implemented in a coordinated manner./.
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