SEREMBAN: A 61-year-old government retiree from Sikamat near here has lost her entire gratuity and some of her husband's savings, totalling RM202,000, in an online investment scam.
The victim, who wished to be known only as Ika, said she was added to a Telegram group on June 16 and the administrator introduced her to a scheme that offered high returns.
Ika said when she asked for her profit, the suspect told her that she would have to pay for other expenses such as taxes, administration and miscellaneous fees."I believed the suspect as he sounded very religious. “I transferred the rest of the money in instalments into different bank accounts over the next 10 days.
"However, when I asked him for the profits which had apparently gone up to RM1.5mil by then, he said I would need to make payments totalling RM35,000 before I could get the money," she added. Ika said when she told the suspect that she did not have any savings left, he told her that she could transfer any amount for the time being."It then occurred to me that the other so-called investors were also playing along all the time to trap me," she said, adding that some even told her it was difficult to withdraw their profits at the beginning but investors would eventually get their money.
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