Couple fooled by fake anti-money laundering enforcers, lose RM120,000
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 10 — A recent scam going around where a caller pretending to be from the Anti-Money Laundring Act (AMLA) enforcement team has claimed new victims.
NST reported that a married couple said they were deceived by someone posing as an AMLA officer on the phone and were duped into transferring RM120,000 to the scammer.
Seri Alam district police chief superintendent Mohd Sohaimi Ishak confirmed that a local man had filed a police report, saying he and his wife had been scammed by the fake AMLA officer and had carried out 17 cash transactions via cash deposit machines into three different bank accounts last Monday.
The couple had been told the money was for financial audit verification purposes but the caller had blocked their number after receiving the funds.
Only then did the couple realise they had been fooled.
The public is advised to exercise caution and to refer to one of the following before believing any call demanding money: National Scam Response Centre (NSRC), Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID), the police CCID Facebook page, CCID Infoline or Semak Mule.
