KUCHING: A businessman was cheated of RM28,548 in a Macau scam on Tuesday. The 54-year old man from Miri told police that he received a phone call from a man who introduced himself as Sergeant Lim (no tel: +882 07xxxxxxx) and told the victim that there was a warrant of arrest from the court as he had illegal money in his account.
The man then ordered the victim to give the bank account number and the victim gave his account details to the man as requested.Then the victim received messages stating that there were three (3) transactions, namely transferring of money amounting to RM28,548 from his account to three (3) different accounts. This was when he realised he was cheated.
In Miri too a supervisor, aged 31, lost RM6,300 also in a Macau scam.
The case occurred between Nov 21 and Dec 3 this year when he received a call from an individual who introduced himself as Siti Khatija Binti Hj Khalid asking him to appear in court for a credit card case. The victim said he did not have any credit card loans and the woman requested him to make a report via telephone to the IPK Melaka.
When the line was connected to IPK Melaka the victim was asked by an individual to lodge a police report by phone. After the victim’s report was taken, at the same time the victim heard a police conversation with personnel from the Home Ministry (KDN). In the conversation, the victim heard he was suspected of being involved in money laundering and drug trafficking. Then the phone line was connected to a police officer (one Tuan Azlan) who was said to assist in the victim’s case.
The victim made several transactions totalling RM6,300 to two (2) different bank accounts between Nov 21 and Dec 3 this year. After that, he found he was cheated as he never had any credit card.
Attempts were made on eight others but they escaped from being cheated.
