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SIBU, July 3: A female teacher in Sibu lost RM115,000 of her savings to a phone scam earlier last month.
Sarawak Police Commissioner Dato Mohd Azman Ahmad Sapri said the victim, who is in her 20s, allegedly received a phone call from a man named John Jonathan claiming that he was working for Pos Laju in Kuala Lumpur.
The man then told the victim that an unclaimed package containing her identification card and Maybank credit card was scheduled to be sent to Miri.
The victim denied such package delivery, to which the suspect told her to lodge a police report, and the telephone line was then connected to a man with the rank of a sergeant from Perlis IPK (police headquarters) and Inspector Syafiq, who supposedly would check the case with Bukit Aman police.
She was later informed that her name was involved in a money laundering case.
The panicked victim then obeyed their instructions, including making a bank loan amounting to RM125,000 in Sibu.
She was also asked to download the Bank Negara Malaysia application through a link given by the scammers, in which she had filled in her personal and banking details.
“After four days, the victim transferred RM3,000 to an auditor named Muhammad Izzat Danial, supposedly for the payment of account security matters.
“When she checked her account bank, she noticed that her savings had been cut worth RM112,000 in five transactions to unknown individuals,” Azman said in a statement today.
He added that the victim only realised she had been scammed after failed attempts to call Inspector Syafiq before making a ‘real’ police report. — DayakDaily
