Foo speaks at the press conference.
KUCHING (June 17): The Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) public complaints bureau has so far received six reports on scams involving losses amounting to more than RM100,000 since June 10.
Its bureau chief Milton Foo said a preemptive measure should be taken by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to direct all banks and financial institutions to freeze and investigate the recipient’s or mule account holders that were reported by the victims.
“From the six cases, all of the victims have seen their hard earned savings being transferred into these mule bank accounts,” said Foo to a press conference at the party’s headquarters here yesterday.
He said out of the six cases that they had received, the highest loss to a single victim was at RM47,000, followed by a credit card scam which caused the victim to lose RM8,000.
Foo, who is also SUPP Youth Central secretary, said BNM should also strengthen the procedures and criteria for any individuals who want to open a new bank account and also to have new bank accounts audited periodically.
“This is to deter the new bank accounts from becoming mule accounts for scammers,” he noted, while hailing the statement issued by Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Datuk Mohd Kamarudin Md Din to blacklist any individuals from opening new bank accounts if they were found to be owners of mule accounts.
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