MCMC kecewa Meta tak serius banteras scammer



KULAI – Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (MCMC) kecewa dengan syarikat konglomerat, Meta Platforms Inc. (Meta) yang tidak memandang serius isu scammer yang berleluasa menggunakan platform media sosial itu.

Timbalan Menteri Komunikasi, Teo Nie Ching berkata, kemunculan scammer di Facebook semakin mencanak malah lebih rancak setelah membayar platform itu untuk meningkatkan (boost) hantaran mereka.

Bukan itu sahaja, katanya, scammer tersebut turut menggunakan wajah ahli politik, orang kenamaan, selebriti dan sebagainya bagi memperdayakan pengguna laman sosial berkenaan.

“Pihak kementerian merasa sangat tak gembira dengan Meta kerana kebanyakan konten yang saya sebut tadi adalah ‘sponsored post’, maksudnya scammer bayar Meta untuk ‘boost’ konten tersebut kepada pengguna lain khasnya mereka yang berada di Malaysia.

“Walaupun mereka akan padam akaun tersebut tetapi mereka nampaknya mereka tidak ambil apa-apa langkah untuk hentikan scammer tersebut yang akan muncul semula buat sekian kalinya,” katanya.


https://www.kosmo.com.my/2025/02/28/mcmc-ke...nteras-scammer/

Malaysians are still getting screwed by Facebook Scam Ads despite new social media regulation

11 April 2025


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According to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission’s (MCMC) list of Application Service Providers (ASP), it appears that only TikTok and WeChat have obtained the required licence to operate in Malaysia. Both Meta (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp) and Google (YouTube) are not listed.

When the regulation was introduced, the MCMC revealed that action under Section 126 of the Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA) 1998 will be taken against any applicable service providers that continue to operate without a licence from 1st January 2025. If convicted, the non-compliant platform can be fined up to RM500,000, or face imprisonment up to 5 years, or both. Further fine of RM1,000 per day can be slapped upon the platform if they continue with the offence after conviction.

So far three months have passed and we have yet to see any severe action taken against non-compliant social media platforms.

Meanwhile in Singapore, the authorities have passed the Online Criminal Harms Act (OCHA) which targets online content used to facilitate scams and malicious cyber activities. One of the requirements is to ensure all advertisers on Facebook are verified against government-issued records before they can run any ads targeting Singapore users.

It is time for Malaysia to impose similar mandatory advertiser verifications for social media platforms if it wants to tackle scam ads effectively

If these social media platforms don’t want to play ball, Malaysia needs to consider harsher actions which may include blocking or banning of the platforms itself.


https://soyacincau.com/2025/04/11/facebook-...dia-regulation/