Scammed of last penny

All that glitters: Chong (left) holding up the police report made by the victim during the press conference in Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR: A woman has been surviving on her savings after she was retrenched from work soon after Covid-19 hit Malaysia in 2020.

But when she was left with slightly more than RM3,000 in her bank account, Anna (not her real name) knew her situation was dire and she accepted an offer as a purchaser whose task was to buy certain products on ecommerce platforms “to boost their popularity”.