Compiled by ADELINE GOOI, CRYSTAL CHIAM SHIYING and R. ARAVINTHAN

A WOMAN is in hot water after opening multiple bank accounts for an Internet scam syndicate.

Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported that the 27-year-old woman from Kuala Pilah was desperate to earn extra cash after her father, 70, was diagnosed with minor dementia and her mother, 62, suffered a stroke last year.

She came across an advertisement offering “work from home and earn RMXXX” in August last year and contacted the 28-year-old man who posted the job vacancy.

He told her he was from Seremban and could not open bank accounts because he was a bankrupt.

“The man, who introduced himself as ‘Axe’, persuaded me to use my own identity and my father’s MyKad to apply for 21 bank accounts.

“After I passed all the ATM cards to him in March, he paid me RM8,000,” she added.

She said the police came looking for her in May and told her that she was involved in an Internet scam before she was charged in court.

The woman is out on bail and is no longer in contact with Axe, who blocked her on all social media platforms.

> A university student fell to his death from the fourth floor of his hostel after losing his balance while sitting on the balcony railing, China Press reported.

The incident happened at the students’ hostel at Universiti Teknologi Mara in Dengkil at 11.30pm on Sunday.

Sepang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Aziz Ali said the 18-year-old was talking to his housemate at the balcony but later moved and sat on the railing while talking on his phone.

He was killed on the spot in the fall.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.

