Supermarket executive claims to have lost RM30,000 to Macau scam

MIRI: A man, who works as an administrative executive at a supermarket here, has lodged a police reports claiming that he lost RM30,000 to Macau scam.

In confirming the case, Miri police chief ACP Lim Meng Seah said the victim received a call from an unknown individual at around 10am on Monday, in which the caller identified himself as ‘Jason’ representing a bank group based in Klang.

“The caller informed the victim that the latter’s credit card had exceeded the limit and later, he asked the victim if he wanted to raise the credit limit.

“The victim replied by saying that he did not possess any credit card under the said bank group. “The call was then transferred, supposedly to Selangor police contingent where a man who introduced himself as one ‘Sgt Yang’, informed the supermarket executive that there were several cases that involved credit cards bearing his name,” said Lim.

The call was then transferred to Bukit Aman, where one ‘Tuan Jeffery’ requested the victim to reveal the latter’s username for his online banking account.

“The caller said this was for the purpose of changing the serial card numbers. Not long after that, the victim was asked to reveal the TAC that he received right after that – he did this without any question,” he said.

However, the executive later sensed that something was amiss, after which he contacted his bank for confirmation, said Lim.

“It was only then when he found out that there had been two transactions involving his bank account, namely withdrawals that amounted to RM30,000. Realising that he had been scammed, he immediately lodged a police report.”

Police are investigating the case under Section 420 of the Penal Code.