RM120,000 lost to scam
The NST online 2010/03/03
NUSAJAYA: A 22-year-old woman has fallen prey to an online scam that caused her to lose RM120,000.
The victim is a clerk from Sungai Renggit, Kota Tinggi. She received an email from an unknown sender last Wednesday stating that she won STG800,000 (RM4.06 million) from the United Kingdom National Lottery.
State police chief Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the email sender persuaded the clerk to deposit money into six accounts in a local bank in order to redeem her prize money.
She did so before realising she had been cheated. Mokhtar said the sender, in persuading her, gave several reasons including obtaining a lottery certificate from the UK National Lottery and to settle a customs-related case involving another person who was delivering the prize money from UK.
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