Elderly couple loses RM18k in gold scam


KUALA LUMPUR: A septuagenarian couple found out the hard way that all that glitters may not be gold, after all.

A glib-talking stranger conned Rani Rahim and wife Halijah Othman into believing their groceries receipt from a hypermarket in Ampang last Tuesday had entitled them to take home, either a new Perodua MyVi or a gold bar.

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