Penang teacher loses more than RM500,000 to online investment scam


GEORGE TOWN: A teacher became the latest victim of an online stock investment scam, suffering a loss of over half a million ringgit.

Penang police chief Comm Datuk Hamzah Ahmad said the South Seberang Perai district police headquarters' Commercial Crime Investigation Division received a complaint from a 47-year-old victim on Saturday (May 10), claiming that a syndicate had deceived him out of RM511,000.

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