Police say the 70-year-old Subang Jaya resident was told she was a suspect in a money laundering case and that she could be arrested.
Police said the woman was told to transfer the money into a new bank account, give the details to the ‘police’, and warned ‘not to access the account for a few months’.
State police chief Hussein Omar Khan said the 70-year-old woman received a phone call from someone in November 2022 claiming to be an insurance officer, who said there had been an insurance claim using her name. He said the woman was then duped into opening a new account for investigation purposes and, in a panic, she transferred RM3.9 million into the account.
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