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Loan shark and online gambling syndicates are believed to be operated by the same criminal groups and the World Cup season is making things worse.

MCA Youth deputy chief Mike Chong Yew Chuan warned that gamblers who lose money during major sporting events are frequently targeted by loan sharks offering quick loans to cover their debts.

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00:00Okay, this is the one.
00:02How much I just put in it?
00:06I just want to take this opportunity to say that we are very upset.
00:12Because despite we have been doing this kind of advocacy
00:16and exposed of all kinds of alum cases before this,
00:22I think Dato Sri is very well-versed in this thing.
00:26He has been doing a lot of advocacy for the past 20, 30 years, even 40 years.
00:32But still, there are many people that fall into the trap of alum.
00:36So I would like to remind everyone, now is the peak season because now it's World Cup.
00:43And then this gambling always associated with this alum.
00:49Because usually the latest trend is that they are the same group of people
00:54just running different kind of business.
00:56One, maybe they are the online gambling operator.
01:00And then another one is Alon.
01:03So we have received a few cases also saying that when they lose money
01:08through this, what we call that online gambling,
01:10they will receive offer.
01:12Okay, saying that you want to borrow money to like pay your debts or something like that.
01:16So we suspect that they are from the same group of people.
01:20That's why our message to the people out there,
01:23please, please, please, like Dato Sri said,
01:26you want to borrow money, you want to online gamble,
01:29that one is your problem.
01:32But don't ever get your family involved.
01:35They are innocent.
01:36Okay, so I do agree with Dato Sri.
01:39I hope the government can come up with something that make the borrowers to be punishable also,
01:46so that they will be held responsible.
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