By DayakDaily Team
KUCHING, Sept 11: A local woman in her late 50s fell victim to an online investment scam in Kota Samarahan, losing approximately RM300,000 in the process.
Sarawak Police Commissioner Dato Mancha Ata said the victim, a private company administrative clerk, reportedly came across a Facebook advertisement in early June 2025 promoting an investment platform named ‘ARES MFC’.
After clicking on the link, she was contacted via WhatsApp by a woman claiming to be an investment agent.
She was then added to a WhatsApp group named ‘NO 11 VIP (BDD Profit Plan)’, where she was instructed to download the AresMFC application and start investing.
“In this incident, the victim, who was deceived, made several online money transfers totaling approximately RM300,000 into bank accounts provided by the suspect.
“She realised she had been scammed when the suspect could no longer be contacted, and she was unable to withdraw the remaining investment funds,” he said in a statement today.
By the time she filed a police report, she had managed to recover only RM2,880.
This follows another scam in Miri, where a 60-year-old local entrepreneur lost RM588,000 after being duped by an individual posing as an officer from the National Scam Response Centre (NSRC). Read full story here. – DayakDaily
