KUANTAN: A settler has lodged a police report claiming that she lost RM496,000 after being deceived into disclosing her banking information to a Macau scam syndicate last month.
Pahang Commercial Criminal Investigation Department head Mohd Wazir Mohd Yusof said the 60-year-old woman told police that a man claiming to be from Pos Laju contacted her and told her that there was a parcel for her.
“The parcel was said to be linked to a case being investigated for money laundering, following which the call was connected to a man claiming to be a police officer from the Sabah police contingent, who asked the woman to transfer her savings in Amanah Saham Bumiputera to a bank account,” he said in a statement here today.
“About a week later, the woman claimed that the police officer contacted her again, and this time asked for her banking information to facilitate investigations.”
Wazir said the woman realised she had been duped when her repeated calls to the “police officer” after finding RM496,000 in her bank account missing on Monday went unanswered.
She lodged a report at the Karak police station in Bentong yesterday. - FMT
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