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Love can make some people blind, but one mother’s savings ended up in a scam after her daughter gave it to her “lover”.
A 28-year-old woman reportedly cleared out her mother’s bank account and took out RM418,400 to send to a scammer that she claims is her lover.
The woman “met” her lover through social media and claims that he’s a Malay businessman living in France.
The scammer used the excuse of sending cash gifts to the woman and began a series of scams that required the woman to pay cash before she would receive the “foreign transaction”.
"The victim claimed to have exchanged phone numbers as well as given her bank account number to the man because he intended to send gifts, including cash, to symbolise his love for her on Dec 26,2020, which he followed up with a photograph of a cheque via a messaging application,” Pahang Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Supt Mohd Wazir Mohd Yusof said regarding the case.
"The woman then received an email claiming that she would receive RM89,700 through a foreign remittance transaction, but first had to pay RM2,000 before the money could be credited to her account.”
The woman had been making many payments into the scammer’s nine different bank accounts and send a total of RM418,400 from the 44 transfers she claims to have made.
How the unemployed daughter managed to withdraw the money from her mother’s account wasn’t revealed and she made a police report after she realised she had been scammed on 3 March.
The victim’s mother and father were reported to be a teacher and principal of a secondary school respectively.
Many netizens are feeling sympathetic towards the victim’s mother and many wonder how the victim can be so gullible to believe the scammer, especially when scam reports are being reported so frequently these days.
Perhaps love does make one blind, so be sure to stay vigilant and make sure the people around you are aware of them!
Do you know anyone that’s been scammed before? Let us know your story.
Info via The Star
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