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Scams During the Holidays: Keeping Your Wallet Safe

Scams During the Holidays: Keeping Your Wallet Safe “Opportunity makes a thief.” — Francis Bacon The holiday season is supposed to be about celebration, generosity, and a temporary escape from everyday stress. Instead, it has quietly become one of the most profitable periods of the year—for scammers. While you’re busy planning trips, buying gifts, booking last-minute deals, and trying to make everything perfect, someone else is watching for exactly that moment of distraction. Because holidays don’t just increase spending. They lower your guard. And scammers know it. The Perfect Storm for Getting Scammed During holidays, three things happen at once. People spend more. People rush more. People think less. That combination is gold for scammers. You’re more likely to click quickly, trust faster, and skip verification because you don’t want to “miss out” on a deal or delay a plan. The urgency feels justified. After all, it’s the holidays—everything is time-sensitive...
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The Doomscrolling Olympics: Who Wins? Nobody

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Doomscrolling Olympics, where the sport requires no training, no stadium, and no referee—just an endless internet connection and a thumb capable of flicking down a screen at record speed. Competitors don’t need jerseys; they arrive dressed in pyjamas, lying on beds at 3 a.m., bathed in the ghostly glow of their phones. And the prize? Insomnia, anxiety, and a renewed hatred for humanity.

Malaysians, let’s admit it: we’re world-class in this event. Open Twitter (sorry, X) and you’ll find the daily heat—politicians fumbling, influencers oversharing, viral scandals sprouting like mushrooms after rain. We scroll, not because we enjoy it, but because we cannot look away. Like rubbernecking at a car accident, except the accident is perpetual and everyone is livestreaming it.

What drives this behaviour? A cocktail of fear, boredom, and digital masochism. Fear, because we think if we stop scrolling, we’ll miss some world-shattering headline or a meme everyone else has already laughed at. Boredom, because silence and stillness now feel like crimes. And masochism, because let’s face it—we claim to hate online drama, but we devour it faster than nasi lemak at 7 a.m.

And then there’s the mental gymnastics. We tell ourselves we’re “just staying informed,” but really, we’re feeding our brains junk food news. “Five more minutes,” we whisper. Two hours later, we’ve consumed 37 hot takes, 12 conspiracy theories, and at least one thread about how to get rich by investing in something we don’t understand.

Who wins this Olympics? Not you, not me, not society. The only winners are algorithms fattened on our misery, feeding us more negativity because that’s what keeps us hooked. It’s a vicious cycle: doom, outrage, click, repeat.

Maybe it’s time to retire from the games. Put the phone down, take a walk, and remember that not every crisis needs your eyeballs. In the Doomscrolling Olympics, the best medal is the one you award yourself for logging out.
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