Malaysian Police Bust Texting Scam

Police in Malaysia has broken up an alleged text message spam scam ring which believed to have netted over $1 million. The ring included 26 people, one Malaysian and the rest foreigners, and was responsible for taking RM6.4m ($1.9m) between 2006 and April 2010 in fake lottery scams.

Federal Commercial Crimes Investigations Department (CCID) head Datuk Koh Hong Sun said that the group was part of a larger SMS…