In 2020, a housewife unfortunately fell into a phone scam and was defrauded of RM3.Recently, she fell victim to a phone scam again and lost RM9.
According to Perak District Police Chief Assistant Commissioner Ahmad Adnan, a 64-year-old victim was defrauded by a criminal gang posing as a police officer and suffered a loss of RM9.
According to preliminary investigation, the victim received a call from a man at around 8 noon on August 1. The man claimed to be Assistant Superintendent of Police Fiddaus and said that the victim was involved in a money laundering activity worth RM12 million.
A police officer who claimed to be from the Ipoh police station, Chief Mok Tat Cho, was contacted by phone to be investigated, but the victim denied the allegation.
He said the next day, due to panic, the victim instructed to transfer all the savings of Tabung Haji and National Trust, totaling RM9, to two local bank accounts.At the same time, the suspect told the victim that the money would be returned once the investigation was concluded.
He added that at 13 pm on the 4th of this month, "Assistant Superintendent Fidaus" contacted the victim again and asked the victim to transfer another RM1 in order to process the refund of RM5000.
The victim had exhausted his savings and therefore did not transfer any more money to the other party.At the same time, realizing that he had been deceived again, he reported the crime to the police last night.The police also cited Section 420 (cheating) of the Penal Code to investigate the case.
According to police investigation, the victim has been scammed for the second time, and the first occurred in September 2020.The criminals used the same method and defrauded the victim of RM9.
