Tuesday, 07 March 2023 01:00 PM
“Dear customer, your bank account has been suspended temporarily, please contact us,” a message circulated by a large number, but not only as a warning, but rather as a mockery of those who send such messages in an attempt to steal bank account holders.
In Malaysia, a 39-year-old man was exposed to such a fraud, but this time through an anonymous call that lasted only 14 seconds until he fell into a trap and stole one million Malaysian ringgits, equivalent to $222,820.
The Malaysian newspaper Borneo Post Online reported that the man, who was named “Lee”, might not yet accept the idea of losing a quarter of a million dollars of his precious savings.
The details of the incident belong to a swindler who pretended to be from a bank and asked the victim to dictate the changed password to him. The young man knew that something was wrong, so he turned off the phone, then decided to look into his account, only to discover that he had withdrawn an amount of one million ringgit from his savings in the bank without his consent, and quickly called to the bank to file a complaint and report the matter to the police.
