Malaysia scam pulse
Every figure below is labelled with its exact period and source — full-year and partial-year numbers are never blended together.
Full year 2025
Total losses (Home Ministry)
RM2.77b (later revised to RM2.97b)
Full year 2025 — The Star, 22 Jan 2026 / 24 Jun 2026
Total cases
74,744 (a competing count of 66,204 for the same year also circulates)
Full year 2025, vs 35,470 in 2024 — dayakdaily.com, citing police data
Jan–Nov 2025 (sub-series)
Kept separate from the full-year figures above — a partial year, not a comparison point.
Semak Mule
Semak Mule counters
299,531 reported bank accounts / 233,568 phone numbers / 7,867 companies
As at 30 Oct 2025 — The Star, 30 Oct 2025, citing CCID
We publish no BNM Financial Consumer Alert List entity count — BNM publishes none, and third-party counts move in both directions.