PONTIAN: A senior citizen who went to pay some bills at the post office here got duped out of her life savings of more than RM70,000 in a fake lottery scam.
It is learnt that the woman, in her 60s, was talking to another person when an Indonesian man approached them and said he had a winning lottery ticket worth RM1mil.Sources said the foreigner also claimed that he needed to open a new bank account with Bank Negara and show a deposit of RM80,000 in order to redeem the money.
He also assured her that all the bank accounts would be opened in her name and the deposit would be safe. “However, when the woman went to photocopy her identity card, the suspects fled with the money,” the sources said, adding that a report was lodged. The victim, who was at his workplace, received a call from a “policeman” from Negri Sembilan claiming that his son had been arrested with three of his friends.
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