Senior citizens, patients, among commercial crime victims

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KANGAR: The police have identified lonely individuals, four-digit gambling addicts, senior citizens and patients, as among unwitting victims of commercial crime.

Bukit Aman CID (Commercial Crime) director Datuk Syed Ismail Syed Azizan said the culprits included bogus traditional healers and fortune tellers.

He noted that a majority of the victims had gladly parted with thousands of Ringgit, expecting a reversal of misfortune, a cure, or an end to their miseries.

“I advise the public not to be easily misled by the services offered by the criminals because it is their modus operandi to target desperate or helpless victims,” he said in a media conference after launching the Perlis-level Crime Awareness programme here yesterday.

Also present at the function held at the Arau C-Mart business complex was Perlis police chief SAC Zull Aznam Haron. — Bernama