KUALA LUMPUR: Police have urged the public not to respond to any emails purportedly from the police requesting the public to settle outstanding traffic summonses via email.
"It is a scam!" said Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar, adding that the police would not reach out to traffic offenders to pay for their outstanding summonses via email.
"Any email that requires you to make payment using online payment transactions via the link provided in the email is a scam," he said.
He said police received a report from a 37-year-old woman about an email she received from a fake email address which resembled that of the police and ended up losing RM31,600 from her bank account.
"She received an email stating that she had one outstanding summons and attached was the MyBayar PDRM link for her verification. She verified via the link and noticed there was a summons issued to her registration car number.
"Following that, she carried on reading the email till the part where it said she should make the payment for the summons if she does not want further action to be taken against her, by the department.
"This brief advisory was accompanied by another link written as My Bayar PDRM (bragi@noxmedical.com) to settle off the summons," he said.
Upon clicking on the My Bayar PDRM, Hussein said the victim was redirected to the banking page and she filled up all her banking details and requested for an OTP pin.
"Upon completing the OTP a message popped up saying that it is incorrect prompting her to repeat the process three times and approving the transaction from her account to another unknown account.
"Only when the bank contacted her following the too frequent transactions did she realise she had been duped," he added.
Hussein said by that time, more than RM30,000 had already been siphoned out into a third party's account.
He described it as one of many innovative tactics scammers were employing to syphon money from unsuspecting victims' bank accounts.
"Please be aware and do not respond to any emails claiming to have come from the police department. If there is any need for the police to get in touch with you, we will not email you," he assured.
Based on the latest modus operandi, he suspected that these scammers were targeting individuals with outstanding traffic summonses.
"So please be careful and don't fall prey to these scammers," Hussein said in a statement.
He too advised everyone not to share their personal and banking details to anyone. - NST
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