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KUANTAN: A fisherman was duped out of RM 13,000 by an unknown individual posing as his daughter when he phoned him on Friday (December 25).
The head of Pahang’s Commercial Crime Investigation Department, Superintendent Mohd Wazir Mohd Yusof, said the 59-year-old fisherman received the call from the woman whose voice sounded almost the same as that of her eldest son at 11 a.m. while in the sea.
He said that his “daughter” told him that he had changed his phone number and asked him to deposit 5,000 ringgit for business expenses and gave him an account number.
“The man asked a friend to do the transaction before being contacted again by the suspect, who asked for an additional 8,000 yuan saying that the RM 5,000 was insufficient.
“Then he asked his employer to do this transaction. However, upon returning to the coast, he contacted his daughter and was told that she never asked him for money, “Mohd Wazir said in a statement here today.
He added that the victim presented a report yesterday at the Rompin police station, about 130 kilometers from here, and that the investigations are continuing. -Called
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