Elderly KL housewife duped of RM1.3mil in FD phone scam

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An emerging phone scam tactic involves offering victims a savings and investment scheme from a banking institution, says Bukit Aman.  Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said an 85-year-old housewife in Kuala Lumpur was duped out of RM1.3mil by this tactic.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2w9smnya   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The fifth is a new tactic, the phone scam.

00:04There is a new trick from the phone scam.

00:07The syndicate of the phone scam is said to have used a new tactic to empower the victims

00:14by offering an investment scheme that was supposedly proposed by a certain banking institution.

00:23Through a police report that was made in Kuala Lumpur on 27 August 2024,

00:30a 85-year-old housekeeper claimed to have received a call from an individual

00:40who pretended to be an employee of a local bank.

00:46The employee then offered a 4.8% annual dividend investment.

00:56Empowered by the offer, the victim was directed to transfer all his money

01:07to two accounts owned by the complainant with a total value of RM1,372,886.45.

01:20The complainant was then directed to activate the internet banking for both accounts

01:30and provide access to the syndicate, supposedly for financial management.

01:38The complainant was only aware of the scam when he found that all his money was lost from his account.

01:46The case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Criminal Code.

01:51This is similar to the case of a former bank employee who transferred money from her five accounts

02:13to a new account under her name, but it was controlled by the syndicate,

02:21supposedly under the supervision of the authorities.

02:26All of that amounted to RM4 million.

02:30She was asked not to open her new account because she feared that the authorities would track her down.

02:40Three months later, when she opened her account, all that was left was RM79 from the RM4 million.

02:50This is what I reported.

02:53So that's what happened to this new employee.

02:56We should never follow the instructions of others to open an account online.

03:01Because there is no advice from the bank.

03:04It is genuine that we open our own accounts.

03:07After that, we provide access to other people in terms of passwords and so on.

03:12Indeed, when we open it again, it is empty.

03:16So that's the situation.

03:19In the case of phone scams,

03:23the tactics often used are to deceive as a bank employee, a police officer, a judge, and so on.

03:34For the purpose of scaring the victim, the call will also be transferred from one agency to another,

03:42according to the rules for the purpose of investigation and so on.

03:45Recently, there was a person who received a call from the MCMC.

03:53After that, the MCMC passed the call to the auditors of the National Bank of Malaysia.

04:00He was the first auditor. He had five auditors.

04:03He also passed the call to the police of the King of Malaysia, Inspector Soe Enso.

04:07He also passed the call to the second auditor of the National Bank of Malaysia.

04:12So that's how he lost his money.

04:14So these are the tactics.

04:16I want to remind all of you out there,

04:22whether you are young or old,

04:26there is no government agency that transfers the phone in one session.

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