KUALA TERENGGANU: A bank clerk lost RM115,950 after falling victim to a phone scam syndicate posing as police officers and prosecutors.Kuala Terengganu police chief Asst Comm Azli Mohd Noor said the 41-year-old woman was first contacted on Sept 8 by someone claiming to be an insurance company worker.
The caller alleged that the clerk had three outstanding insurance claims.
ACP Azli said the call was then transferred to several other individuals, impersonating police officers and prosecutors who accused the victim of being involved in money laundering.
“The clerk denied making the alleged insurance claims and refuted involvement in money laundering. In order not to be charged, she was instructed to open a new bank account for ‘investigation purposes,’” he said in a statement yesterday, Bernama reported.
He said the victim, who lived in Bukit Payong, Marang, then made six transactions totalling RM115,950, to three different bank accounts, between Sept 19 and Nov 30.
Realising that she had been scammed, the victim lodged a police report at the Kuala Terengganu district police headquarters.
