By DayakDaily Team
KUCHING, Oct 8: The Sarawak police reported two scam cases where two individuals collectively lost RM1,170,000 to fraudulent schemes.
Sarawak Police Commissioner Dato Mancha Ata said in the first case, a civil servant working in Sarikei, in his late 50s, has lost his life savings, totaling RM510,000, after falling victim to a phone scam.
The incident began in late June when the victim received a call from an unknown individual claiming to represent a courier company.
The scammer informed the man that they receive a parcel allegedly containing several credit cards and the victim’s identification card.
The call was then connected to another suspect disguising himself as a policeman working at Melaka police headquarters, and claimed that the victim is suspected of being involved in a money laundering case.
“The victim then made several online transactions to different bank accounts from early to mid-July this year, amounting to RM510,000.
“The victim only realised he had neem cheated after the suspect asked him to make a bail payment to the person handling the case,” Mancha said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, the second case involved a retiree in Kuching, in his mid-70s.
The victim came across a Facebook advertisement for a non-existent two-week investment course offered by ‘Grandpine Capital Learning Centre’ in late-July this year.
The victim then made contact with an unknown individual who offered the course where the victim was asked to download an investment app and buy shares through it.
“The victim conducted several transactions to different bank accounts from mid-August to mid-September this year, totalling about RM660,000.
“The victim only realised that he was cheated when the suspect still asked him to make more bank transactions, and he still did not receive any profit returns from the investment,” Mancha stated. — DayakDaily
