22-04-2025
- Business
- New Straits Times
Factory clerk loses RM130,000 to Telegram investment scam
MUAR: A factory clerk lost RM130,000 to an investment scheme that promised superlative returns in just a few hours, say the police.
The 46-year-old woman had on April 15 joined a Telegram group that promoted the investment opportunity.
District police chief Assistant Commissioner Raiz Mukhlis Aziz Azman said today the woman engaged via WhatsApp with a person who claimed to be the scheme's administrator.
She was promised RM225,000 in profits within six hours.
Raiz Mukhlis said she then transferred RM5,000 to a bank account.
After that, she was directed to a website that showed the "profit" she had made.
She was instructed to pay a series of "service fees" and other charges in order to withdraw the money, Raiz Mukhlis said in a statement.
The woman made seven online cash transfers amounting to RM125,000.
"She finally became suspicious when, despite making the payments, she could not access either her capital or the supposed profit," Raiz Mukhlis said.
