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Malay Mail
12 hours ago
- Business
- Malay Mail
Penang housewife loses over RM500,000 in face-to-face investment scam spanning two years
GEORGE TOWN, June 12 — A housewife lost RM521,450 after falling victim to a fraudulent investment scheme carried out face-to-face in Seberang Perai Utara (SPU), near here, recently. Penang police chief Datuk Hamzah Ahmad said the Commercial Crime Investigation Division from the SPU Police Headquarters received a report from the 57-year-old woman yesterday, with investigations underway. 'Based on investigations, the victim was introduced by her neighbour to the scheme, which promised high returns in a short period in 2022, before introducing the victim to another woman who posed as a marketing officer,' he said in a statement yesterday, adding that the woman explained to the victim how the investment worked. He said the victim then joined the investment and made 51 cash transactions into five different bank accounts from March 4, 2022, to January 22, 2024, totaling RM521,450, before realizing she had been scammed after the suspect kept giving excuses whenever she wanted to withdraw her profits. Hamzah said some of the excuses given were that the investments had not reached maturity dates and that there was no need to worry because her capital was safely stored in Bank Negara. He said the victim was also instructed to make various additional payments, including those to Bank Negara and legal fees, to facilitate the recovery of her capital and profits. 'Investigations are ongoing, including tracing those involved in the scam, and the case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code for cheating,' he added. — Bernama
Free Malaysia Today
21-05-2025
- Free Malaysia Today
Cops nab housewife for staging robbery to steal mother-in-law's jewellery
The female suspect and her five male accomplices were arrested in separate raids on May 15. (Freepik pic) PETALING JAYA : Police have arrested a housewife after suspecting that she was the mastermind behind a robbery at a home in Felda Chini Timur, Pahang, in which she had claimed to be a victim. Pekan police chief Zaidi Mat Zin said the 27-year-old woman lodged a report on March 20, claiming she had been robbed by masked men armed with knives while she was at her mother-in-law's house. Zaidi said the intruders made off with her mother-in-law's jewellery worth RM12,000, Sinar Harian reported. 'She claimed she was robbed by four masked men. 'However, further investigations found that she had actually conspired with her accomplices to stage the robbery and steal the jewellery belonging to her mother-in-law,' he said in a statement. Zaidi said the woman used the proceeds from the sale of the jewellery to pay off her accomplices and settle her debts with loan sharks. She and five male accomplices, aged between 27 and 36, were arrested in separate raids on May 15. Four of the suspects tested positive for methamphetamine, and all had previous convictions for criminal offences, including for robbery, drug usage and housebreaking. 'Police also seized three mobile phones, a necklace, a bracelet, clothes, a knife, bank cards and pawn shop documents,' he added. All the suspects have been remanded until May 23.
Washington Post
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Many women ‘just don't want to' have kids. These books don't blame them.
When the writer Shirley Jackson went to the hospital to give birth to her youngest son in 1951, a clerk at the front desk asked for her personal information. 'Age?' the clerk chirped. 'Sex? Occupation?' 'Writer,' Jackson replied. 'Housewife,' the clerk countered. 'Writer,' Jackson insisted. 'I'll just put down housewife,' the woman told her. That Jackson's best fiction is about the debasements of domesticity is a cruel irony, one the dismissive hospital clerk no doubt failed to appreciate.
