All fired up over ‘handsome deals’

Waste of big efforts: A catering crew who brought food to a fire station in Pasir Gudang on July 15, only to realise it turned out to be a fake order.

JOHOR BARU: Scammers have been impersonating Fire and Rescue Department officers and fraudulently using the department’s name to dupe businesses with bogus tender deals across the country.

So far, nearly a dozen police reports have been filed in Selangor, Sabah, Johor, Perlis and Labuan about such scams, with losses exceeding tens of thousands of ringgit.