Police raid Macau scammers’ luxury condo in KL

Police busted a Macau scam syndicate with the arrest of 13 Chinese nationals in a raid on a luxury condominium unit at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, the Malaysian government news agency Bernama reported.
According to Bernama, city police chief Tajudin Md Isa said the suspects, comprising six men and seven women aged between 20 and 48, were picked up during the Ops Pelican raid at 3.50pm.
Police also seized 11 laptops, four WiFi modems, cash of RM570 and Chinese currency valued at 2,555 from the suspects.
Tajudin said the police had been carrying out investigations into the syndicate over the past year following a report lodged by a man who was cheated by the syndicate of almost RM10,000.
“The victim reported that he received a phone call, claiming that he had made a charge of RM6,232.40 on his AmBank Visa Gold credit card”, Tajudin told a press conference yesterday, as quoted by the news agency.
“When he said he did not own such a card, the suspect asked him to call a Bank Negara officer to lodge a complaint at a telephone number given by the suspect”, the KL police chief continued.
“When the victim called the number and spoke to the officer, who he believed to be at Bank Negara, he was instructed to change his ATM pin number and to transfer his money into two new accounts for safety reasons.”
Tajudin said the man realized that he had been cheated when he went to the bank to ask for the RM9,998 he had just transferred and found that the money was missing.
“Police believed there are more members of the syndicate still at large and we will track them down as soon as possible,” he added.