By DayakDaily Team
SPAOH, Jan 5: Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah urges rural folks to be very wary of phone calls from unknown individuals offering enticing money-making schemes or investment opportunities.
He warned that these unscrupulous individuals are now reaching out to rural folks and more notably, parcel scams have now breached the corners of rural areas in Sarawak.
“We must always be very wary of calls from unknown numbers. We must know who is calling us.
“We must not be easily taken in by any investment proposals or offers promising us great profit in return.
“Scammers are coming up with many scams to swindle you of your money or savings,” he said here today when addressing a gathering at his longhouse Rh Mendit Unsu in Penom before officiating the opening of the National Information Dissemination Centre or NADI (Pusat Sebaran Maklumat Nasional) for his Bukit Saban constituency.
He advised any victims of scams to immediately lodge police report if they have been affected.
Aside from that, he also hoped youths in rural areas would not indulge in online gambling as such activity is very destructive.
“We hope people will realise that gambling will not lead them anyway,” he added.
On the launch of the centre, he said relevant training courses on online commerce, e-Sports, skill training, and basic tech skills like reading QR code and others would be introduced there.
The centre, which is worth about RM400,000 and utilises Starlink internet system, is a project by the Communication Ministry and is implemented by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission.
It is one of the four under the Betong Parliamentary consituency.
The other three are in Betong, Debak, and Spaoh.
“We hope to open the doors for them to know what are the opportunities for contemporary income making options using the internet technology,” he said.
Later at the function, Uggah, accompanied by Betong member of parliament Datuk Dr Richard Rapu presented approval letters to more than 30 recipents for agricultural projects from the Betong Division Development Agency (BDDA). — DayakDaily
