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Apparently, the Energy, Water and Communications Minister (KTAK) Dr Lim Keng Yaik is switched on to retirement mode and no longer kick asses.

In a Ministerial Directive signed on October 23 and released to day, the Minister has passed the buck to MCMC, the agency headed by tired and retired career bureaucrat Dr Halim Shafie so that the SMS Scammers can road free a lot more longer.

The passing of buck -- over one year after the SMS Scams were exposed -- works like this: The MCMC will now determine a mandatory standard on the provision of mobile content and services, to cover the following imperatives:

1 ) Mode of commencement and termination of different types of SMS services;

2 ) Provision of consent before the charging of subsriber's accounts;

3 ) Maintenance of records and logs of transactions by content providers and providers of public cellular services;

4 ) Comprehensive and dynamic measures to prevent fraud and abuse;

5 ) Mechanisms to allow subscribers to check on the status of their subscriptions;

6 ) Procedures to address consumer complaints;

7 ) Any other matter deemed necessary by MCMC.

It summarily means one thing: All along the MCMC has condoned frauds and abuse by SMS Scammers breaching all of the above.

Download the Ministerial Directive in PDF here.