KUCHING: Police believed that more attempts were made by scammers to cheat members of the public but not everyone will come forward to report them.
Sarawak Head of Commercial Crime, Supt Mustafa Kamal (pic) when contacted said he believed that there could be about 10 or more calls daily but not everyone will come forward to lodge police report.
He urged members of the public to call and furnish police with details of what the scammers said and supplied the numbers used to call them.
“In this way the police will be able to highlight the numbers and alert would-be victims,” he said.
Mustafa disclosed that the police have received three more reports – two from Miri and one from Sibu – where attempts were made to cheat the complainants.
He pointed out that fortunately, the people were more aware after the police have highlighted the scams through various media.
In Miri, a 32-year-old teacher received a call on Tuesday from a person who introduced himself as Mohd Zanbri Bin Haji Rashid and told her that she has RM30,000 in her Hong Leong Bank account.
When the complainant said she has never applied for a credit card from the bank, she was then connected to a Roslan Bin Mohd (Melaka Police) who told the complainant that her
account in Maybank was used for money laundering.
She was then connected to an Inspector Yap (Melaka Police) who told her that she must pay RM3,000 to get herself off the case. The teacher refused to entertain the callers after that.
In Miri, a housewife received a call from 01446345xx but she refused to talk. Later, she was contacted by a man who called her with the number 07-22379xx and introduced himself as Corporal Wong Lai Soon, a traffic policeman in Johor Baharu. He told the complainant that she has a traffic suit and asked her for her full personal data.
However, the housewife just put down the phone but the calls continued. She was later told that the calls were from conmen.
In Sibu, a company manageress aged 39 said she received a call from +6805407xx who told her that he (the caller) was from a Malacca court and she had credit card arrears.
The caller then read out the manageress’s genuine Mykad number and asked her to settle her summons or her account would all be frozen.
The manageress said she could not go to Melaka because she was in Sibu but she denied ever applying for any credit card through Maybank.
She was then told that her identity could be used by others. However, the manageress refused to entertain the caller. Mustafa also urged the people to be alert of conmen on the prowl.
