IPOH: Several housewives and elderly women have been conned of at least RM150,000 by a group of men who claimed to have mystical powers to cure the women's illnesses and rid them of their problems.
The conmen would pick their victims at markets here and ask for either cash or jewellery as payment, said state Commercial Crime chief Supt Mazlan Mansor.
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