When two young men approached her outside City Square Mall in Johor Baru, Malaysia, and asked her to take part in a lucky draw, she wasn't keen.
But the 57-year-old Singaporean housewife, who wanted to be known only as Madam Tan, eventually agreed as she felt sorry for them.
She ended up handing them RM11,200 (S$4,600) when she went to their office to collect a prize they claimed she had won.
Till today, nearly a month after the incident, she has yet to see the prize or her money.
It was only after she returned home to Singapore that night that she found out she had fallen victim to a lucky draw scam.
She is one of the latest in a string of Singaporeans who were duped into parting with their money by a scratch-and-win syndicate in Malaysia.
A spokesman for the Singapore Police Force told The New Paper that there have been more than 20 such cases involving Singaporean victims between last October and February this year.
In all, the victims were cheated of about $60,000.
The Malaysian authorities also warned Singaporeans in January about falling for a scratch-and-win scam which had conned at least 38 Singaporeans out of tens of thousands of dollars in recent
SOURCE:
http://www.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120410-338754.html
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