JERTIH: A teenager has handed over her mother's jewellery worth RM140,000 to an unknown individual after being deceived by a phone scam syndicate.
Besut deputy police chief Dep Supt Md Sani Md Salleh said the 18-year-old, who is awaiting admission to an institution of higher learning (IPT), lodged a police report on Saturday (July 12) claiming she had been duped.
"The teen received phone calls from three individuals posing as representatives from the e-wallet company and a police officer from Perak on July 1.
"They claimed that her particulars had been misused and she was implicated in fraud and money laundering cases," he said in a statement on Tuesday (July 15).
Md Sani said the victim then handed over her mother's jewellery to an unknown female suspect in a supermarket in Jertih town the next day (July 2).
He said the suspect promised to return the jewellery the same day but later told the teenager that the jewellery had been kept by the Police forensics unit for further investigation.
"The teenager was then told that she would have to pay RM28,000 to retrieve the jewellery. The teenager then lodged a police report upon realising she had been duped," he said.
Following that, police arrested a 37-year-old woman in Kuala Besut on Monday (July 14) and remanded her for four days until Friday to assist in investigations under Section 420 of the Penal Code. – Bernama
