Alor Gajah district police chief Arshad Abu said the 27-year-old teacher with a private company had responded to a WhatsApp message from one “Yasmin” at about 6pm on March 31.

“The woman offered the complainant a job to do reviews on certain places on Google Maps and the teacher agreed to perform the tasks as directed.

“In the course of doing her work, she was asked to make payments to an account to ‘increase investor confidence’ in the company.

“She banked in the money as investments in Yasmin’s company,” he said in a statement today.

Arshad said the teacher made several transfers totalling RM78,000 into the account on April 1 and 2.

The teacher made a report at the Masjid Tanah police station yesterday when she realised it was a scam.

Arshad said the teacher had been paid only RM46 with promises of more payments not fulfilled.

He advised the public to be wary of strangers offering them unbelievably good deals and to immediately contact the National Scam Response Centre by calling 997 if they fell victim to scam syndicates.