MELAKA: It sounds unbelievable but a 23-year-old female entrepreneur from Masjid Tanah here paid RM19,681 in processing fees for a RM20,000 loan that she never received.
Melaka Commercial Crime chief Supt E. Sundra Rajan said it was baffling as to why the victim, the owner of a catering company, paid an amount that was almost equal to the amount of the loan she had intended to apply for via an online loan provider, which later turned out to be a scam.
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