BALING: A 57-year-old female school teacher in Kuala Ketil here lost RM212,210 of her hard earned Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) savings after being cheated in a scam.

Baling police chief Supt Shariffudin Yusof said the victim received a message via the short-messaging system (SMS) claiming to be from a bank, saying there was a transaction of RM4,388 in her credit card account on Nov 1.

“She was told to make a call to a number if she did not make the transaction. When she called the number, a man who introduced himself as David Lim told the victim she had RM8,236.80 in arrears on her Visa Gold credit card, and to call Bank Negara Malaysia at a given number,” he said in a statement here yesterday.

Shariffudin said subsequently the woman spoke to two individuals named Lim Khar Meng and Lim Chin Teong.

She then transferred RM29,995.09 into an unidentified account in two transactions at 5.20pm the same day and also wired in RM9,995.07 at 5.23pm, he said.

The woman deposited RM98,000 into an account under the name of Chong Hon Mun via 11 transactions using a cash deposit machine (CDM) of a bank on Nov 3.



The woman later went to a bank branch in Baling and found that a sum of RM74,220.53 had been moved from her account via online banking three times on Nov 2 and 3, he said.

Shariffudin said police would send an application for Financial Services Platform (FSP) to banks and telecommunication companies involved, apart from investigating all numbers contacted by the victim.
by noreply@blogger.com (Rakyat Sembang) via BERITA RAKYAT