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KANGAR: In panic and for fear of being arrested for alleged involvement in money laundering, a civil servant lost almost half a million ringgit of her savings to a Macau scam syndicate.

Arau Police chief Supt  Ahmad Mohsin Md Rodi said the 50-year-old woman made 10 payments totalling RM429,000 to the syndicate after being duped that she would be arrested and charged in court for money laundering.

“She claimed to have received a phone call purportedly from an officer of Pos Malaysia Berhad and was told that there was a parcel containing illegal items, namely an identity card and five bank cards on her name, to be sent to Sabah,” he said in a statement Friday.

He said the caller then asked the woman to lodge a police report and the call was immediately connected to a “Sabah Police station”.