KUALA TERENGGANU: A teacher has lost RM446,200 after falling prey to a phone scam.
Kuala Terengganu OCPD Asst Comm Azli Mohd Noor said that on June 28, the 52-year-old victim received a phone call from a suspect claiming to be a representative of an insurance company.
He said the suspect told the victim he was involved in a fake medical claim worth RM12,000 before connecting him to an accomplice posing as a police officer for further action.
“The victim made 23 transactions amounting to RM446,200 to 16 different accounts between July 26 and Oct 19,” ACP Azli said.
“He only realised he had been cheated after discovering that the documents presented to him were fake and that attempts to contact the suspect failed,” he said in a statement, Bernama reported.
