Published on: Thursday, February 18, 2021
By: The Star
All gone: Ng speaking at the press conference organised by Wong.
IPOH: This Chinese New Year has been a bitter one for 80-year-old Ng Kam Moi after she was cheated out of her life savings of RM77,000.
Ng, a former government hospital attendant who lives in Tanjung Rambutan, said she was told to withdraw her fixed deposit by a man in his 30s so that she could open another bank account offering higher interest rates. The Feb 9 incident has caused Ng to lose sleep and appetite.
Relating her ordeal, Ng – who is blind in one eye and has blurry vision in the other eye – said it all started on Feb 3 when her former water filter agent introduced her to a man to get a new set of filter.