University professor fell into phone scam scam and was defrauded of RM100,000 pension!
The members of the fraud group still pretended to be civil servant fraud victims, but they did not let the victims send money by online transfer. Instead, they let the victims withdraw the deposits in the bank and put them in a backpack, and then put them in a rubble.
Assistant Director Ali Fei pointed out that the victim (64 years old) received a phone call from a Chinese man who claimed to be a post office clerk on the 15th of this month, alleging that the authorities seized a package under the victim's name.
He said the scammer posing as a post office clerk pointed out to the victim that the authorities had found 15 bank withdrawal cards in the parcel and was preparing to mail from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Lumpur.
"After the victim immediately denied it, he was asked to call the police for convenience, but soon he received a call from a Malay man who claimed to be a policeman."
He said the scammer who pretended to be a policeman also warned the victim not to tell the incident to others, so as not to affect the investigation and arrest, and to ask the victim for bank information and the deposit amount of the relevant bank.
He said that members of the fraud group contacted the victim again on the 20th of this month, asking the victim to withdraw all the deposits in the bank to avoid being frozen by the National Bank of their bank account.
"The other party instructed the victim to withdraw the deposit of 100,000 ringgit, put it in a backpack, and put the backpack on an old sofa in a ruin outside his university."
He said members of the scam group even instructed the victims to go forward after putting down their backpacks and not to look back.
He said that the more the victim thought after the incident, the more he handled the case; the police will invoke Article 420 of the Criminal Code (fraud) to investigate the case.
