MIRI: A retailer was made more than RM30,000 poorer as a result of credit card processing fraud.
A police report on the alleged fraud was made at Miri central police station (CPS) here on Wednesday (August 1) after the victim, in his 40’s, had failed to obtain his transactions’ profit in a bank account, after holding an expo sales recently.
According to sources, prior to the expo sales, the victim had rented a credit card merchandise machine from a friend.
Most of that day’s transactions (whereby all sales profits for that day were to be channelled into a bank account number given by the friend) were involving credit cards.
Unfortunately, after the sales were wrapped up, the victim had attempted to check for the transactions and profits at the given bank account number but found it was empty.
Several calls were made by the victim to his friend asking for the matter, but to no avail, as all his calls were left unanswered.
Worried, the victim lodged a police report on the matter.
