A 47-year-old businesswoman fell victim to a phone scam, incurring a loss of RM202,400, to perpetrators who disguised themselves as representatives from a courier company and the police.
A 47-year-old businesswoman fell victim to a phone scam , incurring a loss of RM202,400, to perpetrators who disguised themselves as representatives from a courier company and the police. Terengganu police chief, Datuk Mazli Mazlan, revealed that in early February, the woman was contacted by the impostors and informed that she was implicated in a money laundering and drug-related crime .
He added that the scammers coerced the victim into divulging her online banking account information, including her password. “She was then instructed to make several fund transfers to a specified account and wait for three months for the investigation to be concluded before regaining access to her bank account,” he said in a statement today. The ruse was only discovered by her family members, after which she found her bank balance reduced by RM202,400, with 35 unauthorised transactions taking place without her knowledg
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