Impersonator vs Bank Officer

Let me share with you the recent cheating cases happened in Kuala Lumpur, involving the impersonation of someone in 'Authority'; and in this case, the fraudster posed as a Police Inspector from Bukit Aman.

A 70-years old man received a called from someone who introduced himself as an Inspector from the Police Headquarters in Bukit Aman.

The caller managed to convince this innocent old man that his account was being used for an illegal activities. Then the caller advised him to transfer ALL HIS MONIES into another account to avoid from having all his funds frozen.

This old man, who maintained accounts with one of the bank approached the Branch Manager (BM), to withdraw all his Fixed Deposits (FD). These FD proceeds were to be credited to a 3rd party Savings account at another branch of the same bank.

BM observed that this old man, who is a regular customer of the branch, looked sad and worried on that day.

He probed and inquired as to the reason for the FD withdrawals but the Customer gave no reply and just kept quiet.

BM persisted and kept telling the Customer that currently there have been a lot of cheating cases involving many elderly people through calls from people impersonating as personnel of authority from BNM/Police, etc. But still...there was no reaction from the Customer.

Later in the day, after Banking Hours, the Customer rushed to the Bank and informed the BM that he has been cheated. He wanted the Branch to block the transaction.

The instruction to stop further transaction was already too late and the experience is very painful indeed. The morale here: Please listen to the banker and do not listen to the who you do not know.