78-Year-Old Man Loses RM1.9 Million in Police-Impersonation Phone Scam
Translated from Malay and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- A 78-year-old man lost RM1.9 million in a phone scam carried out by people impersonating police officers.
- Perak police chief Mohd. Alwi Zainal Abidin said police received a report about the incident two days earlier.
- The scam began when the victim was contacted by someone claiming to be a police officer.
A 78-year-old man in Perak lost RM1.9 million after being deceived by a phone scam syndicate posing as police officers.
Perak police chief Datuk Mohd. Alwi Zainal Abidin said police received a report about the incident two days earlier.
The scam began when the victim received a call from someone impersonating a police officer. The caller then deceived him, according to the report.
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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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