KUCHING: Two persons were cheated of their cash through the modus operandi usually used in Macau Scam. In one of the cases, a 30-year-old doctor from Sarawak General Hospital here lost RM14,000 after receiving a call from a man who called himself Sgt. Abizaini bin Moktar from IPK Melaka telling him that his name was being used to apply for a Hong Leong bank credit card.
The victim was told that his name was also used to receive corrupted money. This prompted the victim to spend two hours trying to say he did not get any corrupted money. To prove he did not, he was asked to surrender his account number which he did. Later the victim went back and told his wife who said he might have been conned. He checked and found out that a sum of RM14,000 from his account was transferred to the suspect’s account.
In another case, a retired male, aged 51, from Kuching received a call on November 8 by a man one Mohd Nasir who said he was from Affin Bank. He said the victim’s account was being used for money laundering and would be temporaily suspended.
He was asked to transfer all his cash to the suspect’s account in CIMB to prevent the account from being frozen.
Unknowingly, the money was transferred to the suspect’s account. The victim lost RM13,000.
Two others, a doctor from SGH and a technician from Bintulu avoided from being scammed.
