SEREMBAN: A 21-year-old student here was left RM99,040 poorer after falling victim to a Macau Scam syndicate on Tuesday.
The victim received a call at 1pm from +87087410786, through which a man claimed that she was a suspect in a money laundering case involving a JP Morgan Chasbank account.
"The call was then transferred to 'Sergeant Pozlan' and was later transferred to 'Muhammad Redza'.
"The scammer told the victim to provide all details of her bank account, allegedly for the purpose of investigating the case," Negri Sembilan Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) chief Superintendent Aibee Ab Ghani said in a statement here on Thursday.
The victim, who complied with the request, was also asked to divulge TAC numbers to another phone, 011-39321339.
"The victim later found that all the money in her account had been transferred to several unidentified accounts," he added.
Aibee said that an investigation into the number +87087410786 revealed that it was used in two scam cases involving losses of RM6,750; while the mobile phone number was used in five fraud cases involving losses of RM30,459.
