KUALA LUMPUR: A businesswoman received threats of legal action, leading her to deposit her savings of more than RM100,000 to scammers.
On Feb 2, Lee Kim Chooi, 46, received a call claiming to be from Terengganu TNB, stating that the electricity at her property there would be cut off.After informing that to the supposed officer, she was forwarded to a “Sarjan Albert Lai” who told her that she was involved in a money laundering operation.
After numerous correspondences, she was told on Feb 14 that she would be arrested if she didn’t pay RM40,000.The money was paid again and the scammers used counterfeit government letters and receipts to sell the lie further.“I was scared because of the letters,” she told the media at a press conference here at Wisma MCA on Friday .
On March 18, she was contacted by yet another “police inspector” claiming that she had a chance to get her money back plus a little more as a reward if she helped him with their investigation. She was told that they had a breakthrough in the case and she could sue a bank manager who was the main suspect that had used her details for money laundering.All she had to do was make another payment of RM38,000 by taking a loan, and that after suing the “suspect”, she would be rewarded with RM200,000.She finally revealed all to her husband who then brought her to the Kepong police station on May 15.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg. As of today, we have six people coming forward to me to complain about being scammed.He added that Lee was not confident that she would ever get her money back, but came forward so that other victims would be more aware.
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