KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — With online fraud losses amounting to millions of ringgit in recent years, a local feature film titledproduced in collaboration with the Royal Malaysia Police on love scam awareness is set to hit the silver screen at the end of this year.
“It is with the hope that a message could be carried through this film to provide understanding and knowledge to the viewers as what is depicted in the film is representative of the present society. We are confident that the trend will decrease because of our ongoing awareness and advocacy efforts.” According to film director Denil Choong Lin Loong — who is also known as Captain Denil — the film casts real-life police officers from the CCID in various roles and aims to depict real-life portrayals of the police in action in order to remain as faithful as possible to real-life cases.