Crime & Courts

Police investigating five cases of e-voucher scams

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have opened five investigation papers in connection with fraudulent e-voucher offers involving nationwide losses of RM508,261.

Police secretary Datuk Noorsiah Saaduddin said the e-voucher offers were made through an online application introduced in 2020 involving the purchase of goods and services through e-wallets.

Interested consumers would need to deposit a certain amount of money, and they would be given savings of up to 50 per cent for each purchase in addition to receiving reward points that could be redeemed through the purchase of goods or in cash.

"In the early stages, the transactions and redemption of reward points via the application proceeded smoothly.

"But problems arose at the end of last year when consumers failed to make purchases or redeem their points," Noorsiah said today.

The case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code.

Noorsiah said that in October last year, the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry had warned that companies involved in such activities would be investigated under Section 4(1) and Section 27B of the Direct Sales and Anti-Pyramid Scheme Act 1993.

On Friday, it was reported that about 100 police reports had been lodged involving a loss of nearly RM5 million after over 100 individuals had been duped into joining an online rewards scheme that offered 50 per cent discounts through a company that used names of famous people, royalty, former government officers and religious leaders to attract their victims. — Bernama

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