Man robbed of RM425k after being duped by currency exchange scam

By JUSTIN ZACK
  • Nation

  • Sunday, 25 Aug 2019

PETALING JAYA: A man was robbed by three foreigners after being duped into changing US dollars back to Malaysian ringgit on Saturday (Aug 24).

Ampang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Noor Azmi Yusoff (pic), in a statement issued Sunday (Aug 25), said the victim had been offered an exchange rate of US$1 to RM6.

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