Sibu accountant loses RM50,000 to online investment scam
Sibu OCPD Asst Comm Zulkipli Suhaili, in a statement Wednesday (June 4), said that the victim lodged a report on June 3 claiming that she had been deceived
"The victim first contacted a suspect who introduced herself as 'Gennie', an agent of purported investment company AHAM Capital, after being attracted by an advertisement for a Bursa Saham Malaysia investment course offering lessons on 'technical trading' and 'daily analysis' on Facebook on April 12," he said.
She was then introduced to another investment platform known as Tower Capital Asia (TCA) and was told that profits from the investment would be subject to a 15% commission to AHAM Capital.
Attracted by the offer, the victim agreed to invest and made three money transfers between May 21 and 27 into two different local accounts with a total amount of RM50,000.
However, after logging into the tcapro.net website, she found that the accumulated profits had reached RM101,372.81 but could not be withdrawn.
"Instead, she was asked to add another RM200,000 to enable withdrawals, causing her to start feeling suspicious and file a police report," said ACP Zulkipli.
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