Sales executive cheated RM8,000 in fake loan scam

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JOHOR BARU: A sales executive who wanted to take a personal loan to kick-start her new cosmetic business was instead duped into paying more than RM8,000 to a fake-loan syndicate.To make matters worse, the 29-year-old is still receiving calls from members of the syndicate, who are trying to get even more money from her.

Trouble for the victim, who only wanted to be identified as Zee, started when she stumbled upon a web page offering fast loan approvals on June 21.

“He asked for my pay and EPF statements, a copy of my identity card before telling me I could even get a RM10,000 loan,” she said at the office of Stulang assemblyman Andrew Chen. The man, she said, also convinced her to transfer RM700 as a deposit for the loan on June 24. “But after that, I received a call from a different man who said my account had been blacklisted and I needed to pay RM1,000 for Credit Counselling and Debt Management Agency’s registration along with RM2,020 for documentation fees,” she said.

The man then asked for another RM3,000 as a fee to open a savings account and RM2,000 as fee to open a current account, which she paid. “But until now the money is still nowhere to be seen,” she said.

 

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