In this modern internet age, one might think that it's almost impossible to get scammed online if there's a too-good-to-be-true deal. Not for these two Malaysians though, who recently got conned and lost a total of RM6800. How in the world did this happen? Well, take a read below.
According to the police report, the two victims are a 16-year old teenage boy and the other a 46-year old man. For the first case, the teen saw an iPhone 6S Plus ad on an Instagram page for just RM450 per unit which too good to be true. Your mind is probably screaming "It's a trap" by now but not to this kid, who proceeded to buy 2 iPhones and transferred RM900 to the designated bank account. Here's the worst part, the teen was asked to pay the seller RM1000 for the transportation fee which is a total loss of RM1900.
Then onto the second case, the man first saw a Sony Xperia XZ3 on sale for just RM1100 on some online shopping platform. Obviously, this is too cheap for a flagship even if it was selling as a secondhand, but it didn't register this boomer's brain and contacted the seller on WhatsApp. After some arrangements of transferring the money to the designated bank account and "various fees", he lost RM4900. Oof.
With this, both victims have yet to receive their phones and made a police report. The moral of this story is obvious but we urge everyone to be careful when buying products online, no matter how enticing the sale and image is. By the way, you can always rely on our TechNave App for a safer online phone purchase, as well as comparing phones prices online.
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