An estimated 300 transient crowd of shoppers at Gurney Plaza were provided with heightened awareness of ongoing pervasive SCAM issues inflicting major concerns to members of the public from all sectors of our society and community. The Event headlined as “Be Smart, Stay Alert – Let’s Fight SCAM” on the afternoon of 1^st May 2023 had speeches delivered by Felix Chuah Gim Chuan – Chairman, MCPF Timur Laut District Liaison Committee), Lion KK Loy, District Governor of Lions Club International District 308 B2 and a YDH ACP Soffian bin Santong, OCPF of Timur Laut, Penang. In attendance from PDRM were DSP Shanker a/l Segaran, Head of Bahagian Pencegahan Jenayah dan Keselamatan Komuniti, IPD Timur Laut; DSP Donny a/l John Jubang from BPJKK, IPD TL; ASP Devan a/l Raman, Officer – CCID IPD TL and many other Officers from IPD Timur Laut. MCPF Penang was well represented by the presence of Y.Bhg. Dato’ Ong Poh Eng (Chairman), JM Tan (Secretary), Harikumar Katherasen (Treasurer), James Mohan (Chairman, Barat Daya DLC); Paramaguru Balan Moghan (SPS DLC); Munusamy Muniandy (Chairman, SPU DLC); Y.Bhg. Dato’ M. Kaleessvaran (Committee Member) and Joseph Sawaremuthu (Committee Member). MCPF Timur Laut attendees included Teoh Kheng Tatt, Committee Member cum co-Chief Coordinator for the Event); Ronald Cecil Aeria (Secretary); Kathiraveloo Thangiah (Treasurer) and Peter Paul Arokiyasamy (Committee Member). Also spotted in the crowd were MCPF Members (also Lions Club International members) Chong Soon Kheng and Saw Nee Cheong. Puan Akmelia Hanifa of Bank Negara Malaysia was also in attendance. Lions Club International had its members from nine District 308 B2 Chapters present to give their support.

These were LC of Tanjung Star, LC of Bayan Baru, LC of George Town, LC of Penang Queen, LC of Tanjung Indah, LC of Penang Metropolitan, LC of Penang Komtar, LC of Simpang Ampat and LC of Georgetown Island. It was significant that the launching of the SCAM Poster (sponsored by Lions Club International) was officiated by YDH ACP Soffian bin Santong, Dato’ Ong Poh Eng, Lion KK Loy, Felix Chuah and witnessed by Lion Teoh Kheng Tatt on stage. Thereafter 1,000 SCAM Posters were handed over to the Timur Laut OCPD. The crowd were also entertained by the Band from PDRM Timur Laut. DSP Devan a/l Raman delivered a talk to highlight the various types of SCAMs that were ever evolving within our cyber society and he reminded the crowd to report to the National Scam Response Centre (NSRC) #997 should they have any feedback or in the event of falling prey to SCAM itself. MCPF Penang also updated audience present on the history, structure, mission / vision of MCPF at Federal, State and District levels. It was also timely that the crowd were invited to visit MCPF Penang Website www.mcpfpg.org and in particular the focused ‘Sticky Post’ with pertinent SCAM literature / links (refer to article update of 26^th April 2023).