Confession of a scam victim

AS a victim of a scam, I really have nothing to be proud of. But I think that since I’ve lost thousands of ringgit to scammers, I might as well share the experience and what I learnt from it so that others would take heed and not fall for the well-planned and elaborate modus operandi of these criminals.

It began when I received a call supposedly from a police station. The caller, a lady, read out the numbers of a MyKad and asked me to confirm if it was mine. When I answered yes, she told me the person with the said numbers had been involved in a hit-and-run case in Penang and money laundering as well. The first call was followed up with other phone calls and elaborate text messages via WhatsApp with people who were supposedly, among others, a police inspector, investigation officers, court and bank officers.