Malaysia Scam Centre Raids: 20 Held in Pudu Luxury Units, 94 More in Selangor and Perak

Malaysia's Immigration Department arrested 20 foreigners on 27 October in four luxury residential units on Jalan San Peng in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, that it says were running online investment scams. Between 20 and 26 October police held 58 people in Selangor and 36 in Perak over investment, love, job and loan scams.

Pudu: a month-old centre in luxury units

The 20 are six Thais, five Taiwanese men, four Chinese men and five Indians, aged 23 to 43. Immigration director-general Zakaria Shaaban said the centre had been active for around a month and that the workers inside "were not allowed to leave the premises freely". Its targets were victims in Thailand, India, Taiwan and Japan.

Officers seized 45 phones, eight computers and three laptops, a Thai-language scam script and RM5,370 in cash.

Selangor: 58 arrests across nine raids

Selangor police raided nine premises and arrested eight Malaysian men and 50 foreigners, most of them from East Asia. Police say the suspects posed as customer-service staff to run investment scams, love scams and fake job offers against victims in Europe and East Asia. They seized devices worth RM228,000.

All 58 were remanded under sections 420 and 120B of the Penal Code, which cover cheating and criminal conspiracy.

Perak: a fake Japanese hospital and a TikTok investment scheme

Perak police made arrests in Ipoh, Bercham and Kampar on 22, 23 and 26 October. Police say five Japanese men posed as staff of a Japanese hospital, and five Malaysians and a Thai woman ran a fake loan scheme that collected victims' ATM cards and PINs.

The largest group, police say, was 25 Chinese nationals working from a factory in Bercham. State police chief Mohd Alwi Zainal Abidin said they used TikTok to promote the scheme before directing investors to Telegram.

The national count

The Home Minister told the Dewan Rakyat on 27 October that 968 raids on scam syndicates from 2024 to September 2026 had led to 7,262 arrests, and that 2,912 of those arrested had worked or stayed in Cambodia.

Reporting a scam in Malaysia

The National Scam Response Centre answers on 997, 24 hours a day. The government also points people to the police's Semak Mule portal to check a suspicious account or phone number before paying.