A FEMALE civil servant has claimed to have lost RM468,000 after falling victim to a Macau scam syndicate.

Batu Pahat district police chief Ismail Dollah said the woman, aged 38, claimed an officer from the Sabah police contingent contacted her on August 4 and told her that she was involved in money laundering and offered to help her.

The woman was then told to deposit RM70,000 into a given account and to provide her (the “police officer”) online banking information, all of which the woman did as told, he said in a statement today.

He said the woman only realised she had been duped after finding RM398,000 in her bank account had been transferred online without her knowledge. She then lodged a police report.

He advised the public to be wary of scam calls. – Bernama, October 7, 2022.