KAJANG: A factory worker was duped out of RM22,000 after befriending a “pretty girl” through an SMS chat service.
The man who only wanted to be known as Tan, 25, said he met the woman in November last year.
“Based on the picture that she uploaded on the chat service, she looked very pretty and claimed to be staying in Shah Alam,” he said in a press conference at the Kajang DAP office in Selangor yesterday.
He said that after about a month of knowing the woman, she began asking him for money to pay for surgery for her ill father.
“I foolishly gave her money between last December and February, thinking that it would help her.
“In February, I went to Johor to meet her and I was met by a girl who claimed to be her sister,” he said.
He added that he was told that the woman had been kidnapped by loan sharks and needed money to be released.
Tan said he gave some more money but stopped in March when he could not get any more funds.
“I feared something was amiss and lodged a police report in April,” he said, claiming that he gave about RM22,000 and even bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 phone for the woman.
Most of the money, he said, was borrowed from his friends and he had no idea how he was going to repay them now.
“I only hope that she will repent and re-pay me the money that I had given her,” he added.
Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming, who organised the press conference, advised the public to be wary of these scams.
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