PETALING JAYA: Gone are the days of red paint with loan sharks now employing more "obscure" tactics to mentally torment debtors and their families.
According to MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong, loan sharks are now masquerading as the debtor's mistress to harass family members for their money.
One such victim, a 32-year-old who only wanted to be known as Ng, told a press conference at Wisma MCA that a so-called mistress of her father had started harassing her family since July 2024.
She claimed that the woman demanded RM300,000 from the family as payment for a loan allegedly taken by her father.
The woman suddenly showed up at her grandmother's home demanding that the family take responsibility.
Ng said that this was not the first time loan sharks had approached her family as her father was a habitual borrower with the family already settling RM150,000 of his past debts.
"We confronted my father last year demanding to know if he actually had a mistress and he denied it. He has since disappeared for the last six months and this woman continues to harass us over this money," she said.
The "mistress" had also posted photos of her father at the complainant's aunt's house to mount pressure on the family to pay up.
Chong said that it is highly unlikely that the woman was a mistress.
"What mistress would have a loan agreement for this sort of matter? We urge the father to come out to settle this issue," he said.
