Victims lose thousands within minutes

PETALING JAYA: When accounts manager Chua Ming Choo received an e-mail asking her to click on a link to update her personal banking information because irregular activity was detected in her account, little did she know that RM4,200 savings would soon be wiped out.

“The website was identical to the genuine e-banking website and I did not suspect anything,” she said, adding that she only discovered she had been “phished” of her entire savings when she went to withdraw some money.

Another victim, identified only as Chua from Port Dickson, said she logged on to a website after receiving an e-mail on May 5.