AN elderly housewife in Seremban misplaced RM476,100 after falling for a rip-off by an investment app.

Port Dickson district police chief Aidi Sham Mohamed talked about the 60-365 days-extinct girl claimed to occupy received a message from an unknown Fb online page offering a free monetary management e-book along with a WhatsApp hyperlink on October 3.

He talked about the sufferer clicked on the hyperlink and became as soon as added to a WhatsApp group sooner than being asked to download an app to open a savings story and became as soon as promised curiosity from the deposits.

“During the app, the sufferer became as soon as required to deposit money into the bank story supplied by the WhatsApp group administrator and add the associated price poke onto the app,” he talked about in an announcement this day.

“The girl then deposited funds by 17 transactions to 2 bank accounts within the establish of quite plenty of companies the usage of her possess savings, her kids’s savings and by taking a loan from her friend from November 1-17, totalling RM476,100.”

Aidi talked about the sufferer later discovered that her story became as soon as blocked when she desired to withdraw money from curiosity accumulated.

Realising she had been cheated, the sufferer lodged a police portray yesterday, he talked about. – Bernama, November 22, 2022.