KUALA LUMPUR: The authorities have started a crackdown on cyber scams,
blocking access to six illegal investment websites and raiding the offices of an
Internet firm in the Klang Valley.
In a press statement released yesterday, the Securities Commission said the six websites were www.abbfund.com or www.abfund.us, www.cfdventure.com, www.swedenfund.com, www.uebond.com, http://www.esuissefund.com/ or ww.efmf.com.pa and www.ecashfinance.com.
“SC will continue to work with Bank Negara, the Malaysian Communications Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and CyberSecurity Malaysia to track, identify and block access to websites promoting investment scams.
Better late than never. Have they look into any possibility to panetrate the access block ? How about connecting through proxy or private VPN tunneling to other ISP outside malaysia. Malaysian ISP can only block those website through URL filtering, IP address filtering, Content filtering... but how precise and accurate is the content filtering system... how smart is it's filtering system... have they measured the False Acceptance and False Rejection factor ???
In the next few months, more scam websites will be blocked. The SC has
identified some 60 websites that are involved in illegal cyber
investments.
How to ensure that the scam websites is 100 percent blocked ?? Connection through private tunneling is hard to detect. Those scam website probably have mirror system which replicating the whole content to trap the enduser. MCMC must investigate all the vulnerability factor and come out with a proper solution.
