An emerging phone scam tactic involves offering victims a savings and investment scheme from a banking institution, says Bukit Aman.
Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said an 85-year-old housewife in Kuala Lumpur was duped out of RM1.3mil by this tactic.
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Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said an 85-year-old housewife in Kuala Lumpur was duped out of RM1.3mil by this tactic.
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00:00The fifth is a new tactic, the phone scam.
00:04There is a new trick from the phone scam.
00:07The syndicate of the phone scam is said to have used a new tactic to empower the victims
00:14by offering an investment scheme that was supposedly proposed by a certain banking institution.
00:23Through a police report that was made in Kuala Lumpur on 27 August 2024,
00:30a 85-year-old housekeeper claimed to have received a call from an individual
00:40who pretended to be an employee of a local bank.
00:46The employee then offered a 4.8% annual dividend investment.
00:56Empowered by the offer, the victim was directed to transfer all his money
01:07to two accounts owned by the complainant with a total value of RM1,372,886.45.
01:20The complainant was then directed to activate the internet banking for both accounts
01:30and provide access to the syndicate, supposedly for financial management.
01:38The complainant was only aware of the scam when he found that all his money was lost from his account.
01:46The case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Criminal Code.
01:51This is similar to the case of a former bank employee who transferred money from her five accounts
02:13to a new account under her name, but it was controlled by the syndicate,
02:21supposedly under the supervision of the authorities.
02:26All of that amounted to RM4 million.
02:30She was asked not to open her new account because she feared that the authorities would track her down.
02:40Three months later, when she opened her account, all that was left was RM79 from the RM4 million.
02:50This is what I reported.
02:53So that's what happened to this new employee.
02:56We should never follow the instructions of others to open an account online.
03:01Because there is no advice from the bank.
03:04It is genuine that we open our own accounts.
03:07After that, we provide access to other people in terms of passwords and so on.
03:12Indeed, when we open it again, it is empty.
03:16So that's the situation.
03:19In the case of phone scams,
03:23the tactics often used are to deceive as a bank employee, a police officer, a judge, and so on.
03:34For the purpose of scaring the victim, the call will also be transferred from one agency to another,
03:42according to the rules for the purpose of investigation and so on.
03:45Recently, there was a person who received a call from the MCMC.
03:53After that, the MCMC passed the call to the auditors of the National Bank of Malaysia.
04:00He was the first auditor. He had five auditors.
04:03He also passed the call to the police of the King of Malaysia, Inspector Soe Enso.
04:07He also passed the call to the second auditor of the National Bank of Malaysia.
04:12So that's how he lost his money.
04:14So these are the tactics.
04:16I want to remind all of you out there,
04:22whether you are young or old,
04:26there is no government agency that transfers the phone in one session.