PETALING JAYA: A psychologist has shed light on why people may fall for scams, after figures from the national scam response centre (NSRC) showed losses of more than RM1 billion recorded from tens of thousands of online scams over the past year alone.

The police have rescued a 22-year-old Malaysian woman from being trafficked to a neighbouring country, after she was kept in captivity at a house in Taman Sanctuary, Machang Bubok, here.

Kuala Lumpur: A total of 158 Malaysians who are victims of job scam syndicates are still stranded in foreign countries as of last month, the Dewan Negara was told today.