Senior citizen duped in lottery scam


PONTIAN: A senior citizen who went to pay some bills at the post office here got duped out of her life savings of more than RM70,000 in a fake lottery scam.

It is learnt that the woman, in her 60s, was talking to another person when an Indonesian man approached them and said he had a winning lottery ticket worth RM1mil.

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