Member of Parliament Hiew King Cheu said many people have fallen for the telephone confidence tricksters.
"Many hundred thousand ringgit have been voluntarily banked by victims into some unknown and untraceable bank accounts for the conmen.
"It is surprising that there are many people who had fallen for it and this time it's the 'big lucky draw' with huge sums of money.
"In the past, many people did receive such phone calls regarding them winning the big prize but they chose to ignore them," he said.
Hiew recently mentioned that there is a group of telephone conmen who used the telephone and the Internet computer system to con large sums of money via the credit card from the people who believed in them and banked in money for them.
Despite him asking the public to be very careful and be aware of this type of tricks, the MP came to know of two big cases conducted over the telephone from Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.
The victims came to see the MP crying that their money was gone and that there is no way that they could recover the money back.
The amount of money involved in the first case is RM225,000 and the second, RM244,550.
"In both cases, the victims believed themselves to be the winners of some 'big lucky draws' from Hong Kong, and the prize money is more than RM500,000 each."
He said the conmen would usually use some women speaking in Mandarin.
They normally congratulate the victim for having been drawn the winner of a big prize, and that they are required to remit some money in order to process the prize money.
Later, they will persuade the victim to invest their prize money in bigger draws or they say they will invest for them, but more cash investment from the victim is needed.
The victim usually falls for this trick and remits more cash into some untraceable accounts. The bank-in slips that were shown to MP were shocking enough, and the money being remitted is a huge sum of RM50,000 to RM70,000 at one go.
Both the victims had remitted and banked the amount as requested in a hurry.
The victims were advised to make police reports to facilitate police investigations into the overseas con jobs.
Hiew called on the police to immediately start tracking the conmen and to recover the huge sums of money.
"Interpol must be brought in to help the investigation because this seems to be involving an international crime ring."
Hiew wondered why in view of so many con jobs involving large sums of money, people are so easily trapped by these simple con jobs.
"The public must stay sensible and alert and must not be greedy because there is no such 'good fortune'," he said.
Daily Express Sabah.
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