MUAR: An unemployed man has lost RM310,000 of his savings after falling victim to a non-existent investment scam.
OCPD Asst Comm Raiz Mukhliz Azman Aziz said the 47-year-old victim was drawn to the investment scam’s offer of high returns on YouTube in September.
“The victim filled in his particulars and was contacted through WhatsApp by an unknown person.
“The suspect later introduced an investment application and promised returns of between 10% and 30% based on the amount invested,” he said in a statement.
ACP Raiz Mukhliz added that the victim, who depended solely on his savings as his source of income, ended up making 17 payment transactions.
“The transactions were made between Nov 10 and Dec 5.
“After logging into the application, the victim saw a display claiming that his investment had supposedly grown to more than RM2.5mil,” he said.
ACP Raiz Mukhliz said the victim only realised he had been cheated when attempting to withdraw his profits.
The case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code, which carries a minimum jail term of one year and up to 10 years, whipping and a fine, upon conviction.
Crash response: Firemen arriving at the scene to carry out rescue work after an ambulance skidded on the North-South Expressway near Kluang.
He urged the public not to disclose banking details or transfer money based on suspicious phone calls.
Meanwhile, in KLUANG, an ambulance driver was killed while two nurses and a patient were injured when the vehicle skidded on the North-South Expressway (PLUS).
Renggam fire station operation commander Nasir A Shah said the incident occurred at KM59.8 of the southbound PLUS expressway at 1.10pm yesterday.
“Six firefighters arrived at the location, located about 26km away, at 1.27pm and found that a Hospital Segamat ambulance had skidded.
“The incident involved a male driver, two female medical personnel and a female patient.
“The male driver and a front passenger were thrown out of the ambulance while the other two victims were in the back but not trapped,” he said in a statement.
Nasir added that the 43-year-old driver was pronounced dead at the scene and his remains were handed over to the police for further action.
“The injured victims were moved to a safe area before being handed over to the ambulance service for further treatment at the hospital.”
The operation ended at 2.24pm.
State health and environment committee chairman Ling Tian Soon confirmed the incident and said all victims had been sent to Hospital Enche’ Besar Hajjah Khalsom.
