SEREMBAN: A 52-year-old female manager of a bank in Kuala Lumpur fell victim in a Macau scam causing her to lose RM605,000 in savings.
According to a Sun Daily report, the victim from Taman Tuanku Jaafar lodged a police report with Seremban police on Tuesday, almost two months after her encounter with the scammers.
The manager said she had received a call on the evening of Jan 26 from a woman who claimed she worked for an insurance company and that there was an accident claim made under the victim’s name for RM68,800.
When the victim denied holding an insurance policy with the company, the scammer transferred the call to an accomplice, purportedly a “police sergeant attached to the CID at the Pudu police station” who told the manager that her particulars were being misused and “she had shady links with an assistant director of an airline”.
The call was then transferred to another accomplice of the scammer, a “police inspector”, who told the victim she was involved in money-laundering.
A fourth scammer, a woman, took over the call from then on, claiming to be a deputy public prosecutor and told the victim that a warrant of arrest had been issued to detain her.
Terrified over the threats, the victim denied being involved in any criminal activities and pleaded not to be arrested.
She then told the scammer that she had RM605,000 in her savings — she had earlier withdrawn from a trust fund and Employees Provident Fund.
The scammer, who posed as a police inspector, had ordered the victim to transfer the cash into a mule bank account he provided, claiming it was for “investigation purposes”, Negri Sembilan police commercial crime investigation department head Supt Aibee Ab Ghani said.
