A former company manager has fallen victim to a scam that allegedly originated from impersonators claiming to be part of the National Scam Response Centre (NSRC), resulting in a loss of RM241,000. The incident was reported to the police yesterday by the victim, who is 47 years old.
According to Kluang police chief Bahrin Noh, the victim received a phone call on November 6 from someone presenting themselves as an NSRC officer. The caller falsely claimed that the victim was involved in a money-laundering matter and that the victim’s phone number had been used by an irresponsible party. The conversation then led the victim to connect with an individual who purported to represent the Terengganu police contingent headquarters.
During the call, the victim was told that an arrest warrant had been issued in his name and was instructed to transfer all of his money to an account provided by the caller. Over a period from November 18 to November 27, the victim made payments to seven different accounts. With no success in recovering the funds, the victim filed a police report.
This incident follows earlier warnings from Bukit Aman’s Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Rusdi Isa, who in September disclosed that several Facebook accounts were posing as the NSRC to dupe users on the social platform. The syndicates exploited the NSRC’s name to harvest personal information from victims and cheat them out of their money.
Rusdi emphasized that the NSRC does not maintain social media accounts and does not initiate contact with people via phone calls or WhatsApp."
