Retiree loses RM53,000 in bitcoin scam
Bitcoin investments are not encouraged among the financially illiterate. – EPA pic, July 10, 2020.
A RETIREE has lodged a police report claiming he lost RM53,500 after he was scammed in a non-existent bitcoin investment venture three years ago. Pahang Commercial Crime Investigation Department head Mohd Wazir Mohd Yusof said the victim, 60, claimed he invested through a man introduced to him by a friend in mid-2017.
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