BALIK PULAU, April 5 — A woman was arrested near Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah in Bayan Lepas today to facilitate investigations into a Macau scam that caused a victim to lose RM60,467 in an incident last August.
Barat Daya district police chief Supt Kamarul Rizal Jenal said the woman, a shop assistant in her twenties, claimed she surrendered her ATM card to a man she had known through Facebook as a condition for a RM2,000 loan she had taken from him in August last year.
“The woman claimed she was not aware that her ATM card and bank account were used as a mule account by the man in a Macau scam to cheat his victim nor was she involved in the Macau scam.
He said the arrest was made in relation to a case in August last year where a 27-year-old engineer lost RM60,467 after he was deceived by a man pretending to be an Inland Revenue Board (IRB) officer through a phone call.
“After introducing himself as an IRB officer, the suspect then informed the victim he had unpaid taxes and told the victim to contact a police officer through a given number,” he said in a statement today.
Kamarul Rizal then said the victim made five money transfers to a bank account amounting to RM60,467…
