Hopes of owning iPhone dashed, clerk loses almost RM10,000 to scam

Jempol district police chief, Supt Hoo Chang Hook said the 24 year-old female clerk became interested in an iPhone 12 which was advertised through Instagram.

She saw the advertisement while she was at home in Felda Palong 7 at about 9 pm.

"The victim then contacted an individual through WhatsApp who asked her to make a payment if she was truly interested. The victim was asked to click on a link and to proceed with making an online payment for RM1,300 to an account the next day," he said in a statement here today.

Hoo said the next day the victim checked her account at a bank in Bahau and discovered RM9,500 had been transferred to another account of a local bank owned by an unknown individual on four separate occasions without her knowledge.

He added that the victim then realised she had been tricked and subsequently lodged a police report at the Bahau police station.