Scam syndicate exploiting stroke victim's photo for fake donations, says family

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A cleaner is seeking help after a scam syndicate used a photo of her husband who suffered a stroke and his family to collect illegal donations.   Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday (Dec 4), Moo Lee Yoon said she has lodged four police reports, but the posts have yet to be taken down.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/y4ts7jfx   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00After the stroke, he was paralysed, he was paralysed, and when he was paralysed, he was

00:13sick for help, he was sick for help because he had six children, between four to twenty

00:19years old, so the elders also not working, all study here, so he appealed to the public

00:28for help, appealed to the media, and also appealed to the NGO for help, and then of

00:37course, one NGO which responded, from Kajang, the NGO from Kajang responded, and collection

00:50has been going on, but he don't know, he doesn't know how much, then he finally, he

00:58approached Sinchew, he approached local media, Sinchew, and of course Sinchew got a foundation,

01:07so they helped him with 2,500 per month, for three years, I mean this part you can get,

01:16then when he got the local media to help him, foundation to help him, he stopped the Kajang,

01:26one of the NGO, I'm not proper to mention the name, but the NGO said, ok, you can stop,

01:38but we give you only 2,000, so he was ok, with 2,500, he managed to survive, so this

01:46year, they found that there's been so many, this so-called foundation, i.e. charity foundation,

01:55and also not only, and also several other name, they will put i.e. maybe other name

02:01also, but what they know, i.e. charity foundation, that they are looking for fund for him, so

02:10you see, and they use all the pictures, all the pictures, to show that they are in trouble,

02:19and they ask the public to help, so of course, public are not responded, from what we know,

02:26public and so on, but the account all went into unknown account, I just show you, all

02:36went into this unknown account, where I repeat to you, Yap Ji Wah, which he doesn't know,

02:42so this is, I can tell, it's a very, it's a scammer job.

03:12So, you see, it's a very, it's a very, it's a very, it's a very, it's a very, it's a very,

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03:38Yap Ji Wah.

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