JOHOR BARU: A retiree fell prey to a phone scam syndicate after a man claiming to be a police officer told him to transfer his money into another account.
Chee Yun Wah, 53, received a call from an ‘Insp Wong’ from Bukit Aman at around 9.20am on November last year and was told that police had to freeze his bank account due to investigations into a money laundering case in Hong Kong.
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