Rubber tapper almost squeezed dry in love scam


JEMPOL: A retiree who now works as a rubber tapper lost almost RM100,000 of his Employees Provident Fund savings in a love scam.

Jempol OCPD Supt Hoo Chang Hook said the 58-year-old from a new village in Air Hitam, near here, only realised he had been conned when one Sarah Wong he met via Facebook kept asking for more money.

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