Teacher loses life savings to bogus inspector

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MELAKA: A scammer identifying himself as a police inspector has duped a 33-year-old teacher here into parting with her life savings of RM41,000.

Melaka Commercial Crime chief Supt E. Sundra Rajan said it began when the teacher received a call from a woman claiming to be from the Inland Revenue Board on April 21, claiming she owed RM39,200 in income tax arrears."The woman also told the victim that police wanted to investigate her source of income," he said on Monday .

He said an"Inspector Simon Khoo" then contacted her, claiming that she was being probed for a money laundering case. In a separate case, a 36-year-old housewife was cheated of RM61,912 by a stranger she corresponded with via WhatsApp.

 

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