Today I received a Caller ID Spoofing. It was a recorded message telling me that I have more than RM3K outstanding with RHB. I terminated the call immediately as I did not want to waste my time listening to it. Now, if you don't know what is Caller ID Spoofing, it's where a caller ID number that showed up on on a mobile phone having the a genuine telephone number (e.g. bank CS and even Police Station), but in actual fact, it's a fraud call.

You see, the number that showed up in my phone was 92068228 which is actually a RHB's official Customer Service contact number. I took the initiative to call RHB to report the fake call and was informed that since last Friday, many people have reported that they have been receiving similar fake calls. RHB personnel further informed me that besides them, many CIMB and AmBank customers have been experiencing the same fake calls.

This Caller ID Spoofing is not new, it has been happening for years.

So once again, I strongly suggest that all of you go read this thread - > Suspicious Telephone Calls on CC matters.

And also read my article titled Credit Card Fraud Calls.