KUALA LUMPUR: The public has been warned not to fall for loan scams purportedly being offered by a company using the MCA headquarters’ building here as its correspondence address.
This comes after a scam victim showed up at Wisma MCA here.
Mirza Mohd Izammuddin Beg, 27, who is from Cheras, said he transferred a total of RM2,400 in six transactions into an account to clear his credit record from a local credit reporting agency.
“I wanted to buy a car but my credit record is not good,” he said during a press conference with the MCA public complaints and services bureau here on Friday (Dec 30).
Mirza added that he was planning to borrow RM10,000 to remove his name from the blacklist and then saw an advertisement online offering moneylending services.
After communicating via WhatsApp, he was told to provide his personal details and his payslips for the past three months.
Mirza was then told to pay some money to “manipulate” the credit reporting agency’s system records and clear his name from the blacklist.
However, he said that after each transaction, he was told it could not be processed due to various issues.
“He told me to transfer more money over so he could help me and give me the loan,” he said.
After transferring a total of RM2,400 to a local bank account, Mirza said he felt something was amiss and decided to go to the company premises in person.
“However, I was told that no…
