KUALA LUMPUR: Education on digital literacy, especially senior citizens, must be enhanced in an effort to prevent them from falling prey to scams.
Alliance of Safety Community chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said the government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have reported about senior citizens being victims of scams due to their limited knowledge of cybersecurity.
"The responsibility to curb scams should not only lie with the police, but Bank Negara Malaysia as well as the many banks which are implicated following the transactions involved these cases.
"We fully support efforts by authorities to strengthen existing legislation to give more bite to the law and. We must act more aggressively against the scammers," he told the New Straits Times.
Lee applauded the government's move to beef up the police's Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) to strengthen their team nationwide.
He said the CCID personnel should also be given more training to acquire skills in handling latest technology so they will always be one steap ahead of scammers.
It was reported that CCID has 2,216 officers and members nationwide tasked with handling increasingly challenging commercial crimes.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail had said yesterday that the government would fine-tune the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code and the Penal Code to address the increasing number of cybercrimes in line with technological advancements and the complexity of such crimes.