Woman loses RM53,875 to an online job scam

KUANTAN: She thought it wouldn’t hurt to boost her income doing part-time work. Instead, a woman ended up losing over RM53,000 to an online job scam.

Pahang police chief Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said the 41-year-old victim was offered a simple job, which required her to just subscribe and like YouTube pages, via WhatsApp on Jan 29.

“The victim said she was promised a 30% commission for each task performed,” he said yesterday.

According to Bernama, for a start, the victim was asked to first make a payment of RM300 before taking on her first task. She later received back her money of RM300, plus a RM90 reward. On seeing the easy profit, she continued making more payments to her “recruiter”.

Ramli said the victim only realised she had been cheated when the rewards stopped coming in but by then, she had paid out RM53,875 to four bank accounts through 10 transactions.

He said the victim filed a report at the Kuantan District Police Headquarters on Sunday.

Ramli advised the public not to be easily duped by job offers on social media, especially those promising attractive returns.