Businessman loses RM65,180 in lottery scam


A 45-year-old business man paid a total of RM65,180 for a lottery number that purportedly would win him RM1.1 million. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, September 6, 2021.

A BUSINESSMAN was made poorer by more than RM65,000 after being duped into paying the amount for a winning lottery number that purportedly would make him a millionaire.

Pahang Commercial Crime Investigation Department head Supt Mohd Wazir Mohd Yusof said the 45-year-old victim claimed he had transferred a total of RM65,180 to a given account by a man who said he was able to predict the lottery number that would win him RM1.1 million.


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