Man conned of RM3,500 in online scam

TAIPING: A man wanted to sell a Canon 500B camera worth  RM1,050 online but instead ended up losing RM3,500 in a slick con job.
Taiping police chief ACP Harith Kam Abdullah said he got a buyer going by the name of Linda on June 26 and sent the camera to an address in Puchong, Selangor via Pos Laju on June 29 after Linda made payment through a foreign bank.
“However, the victim received an e-mail from the said bank that the buyer had overpaid and asked him to return the excess amount of RM2,450 to a Maybank account before the foreign bank could release the money owed to him,” he said in a statement here today.
He added that the victim transferred the money in two transactions only to learn later it was nothing more than a con job and subsequently lodged a police report.
In IPOH, Perak police chief Datuk Hasnan Hassan said police had identified the three main suspects in an investment cheating scam known as Vis Future Enterprise.
He said the suspects, aged between 28 and 56 years,  who were believed to be running the enterprise, were believed to be offering 10% returns to investors.
Police had received a number of reports on the scheme and traced the company’s address which was an unoccupied house in Kepala Batas, he said.
Earlier today, five individuals had held a press conference here to alert the public on this latest scam.
One of the victims,  Chin Soo Mee, 47, who claimed to have lost RM10,000, said a friend introduced her to the “lucrative” scheme last December. — Bernama