KUANTAN: The lure of easy money was just too tempting for one teacher, who lost a big sum in a “get rich quickly” scam.
The female teacher was deceived by a non-existent investment and loan scheme on social media, resulting in a loss of over RM130,000, Pahang police chief Datuk Seri Yahaya Othman said.
The 28-year-old victim was initially interested in joining an investment scheme that promised high returns on Facebook on July 26. She then downloaded the investment application through the provided link and started investing RM550. To her delight, her investment quickly earned her a RM400 profit.
“The victim invested up to RM109,817 by making 22 transactions to 11 different accounts provided by the suspect, who then asked the victim to pay RM20,000 to redeem a profit of US$22,000 (RM95,950 from the investment,” he said in a statement yesterday, Bernama reported.The teacher even took a RM20,000 loan from a lender using Facebook, but was charged a processing fee of up to RM20,980, which was made through 10 transactions to five bank accounts from Sept 5 to 7.
The victim realised she had been deceived by scammers when she did not receive the promised returns on the investments and loans, he said.
She then victim filed a police report at the Kuantan district police headquarters on Monday.
