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TAMPIN: An employee of a private company lost RM693,900 after being duped by a Macau scam syndicate that claimed the victim was involved in money laundering.
The head of Negeri Sembilan’s Commercial Crime Investigation Department, Superintendent Aibee Abd Ghani, said the 59-year-old woman claimed to have received a call from an unknown person on October 27 who provided her with his name and identification number correctly.
“He was told that an arrest warrant will be issued against him for his involvement in money laundering, after which the call was connected to two men who claimed to be policemen known as Sergeant Tan and Asp Yong.
“During the conversation, he claimed that the police officers had created fear for him and asked him for the username and password of his Public Bank account and to withdraw his savings totaling RM363,900 in the bank,” he said today it’s a statement.
He said the suspects also told him to pay RM 260,000 for bail and RM 70,000 in legal fees.
The victim, who was scared and panicked, did as she was told and transferred all her savings to a Public Bank account given by the suspects and was also told to be in the Tampin Court yesterday to mention her case, she said.
Aibee said that after giving his bank information to the suspects, he began receiving notifications from the bank about withdrawals from his account to various unknown accounts, informing him that the transactions were for auditing purposes and that the money would be returned to him later.
He said the victim claimed that he received another call yesterday, from a man claiming to be DSP Chew, who asked him to collect another RM 135,000 for additional bail, but did not make the payment because he had run out of money.
Feeling that she had been deceived, the woman submitted a police report and the case is being investigated under article 420 of the Penal Code, he added. -Called
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