IT consultant slashed, robbed while checking bank balance

PETALING JAYA: An IT consultant was slashed and robbed while he was checking his bank balance at an ATM in Kota Damansara.

A man wearing a full-face helmet is reported to have walked up to the victim and brandished a knife in the 6.30pm, Sunday incident.

Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Azmi Abu Kassim said the robber had forced the victim to withdraw RM1,000 from the ATM.

“After taking the cash, the robber tried to grab the victim’s ATM card and there was a struggle. The robber slashed the man a few times before getting away,” he told The Star Online.

ACP Azmi added that the robber got onto the motorcycle of an accomplice to flee the scene.

Senior citizen reverses car into bank by accident

PETALING JAYA: A senior citizen accidentally drove his car into a CIMB bank in Damansara Uptown, Sunday evening, after mistaking the forward gear for reverse.

However, CIMB took the accident with some light-hearted jest, with group chairman Datuk Seri Nazir Razak posting a picture of the crashed car on his Instagram account with the caption:

“Err.... Sorry but we have not launched CIMB Drive-in service.”

The bank now has to close a portion of its ATM section, after the 70-year-old’s Perodua Kelisa ploughed through the glass panels before hitting a wall in the bank. Read more ...

Security Update

1) Snatch theft at Jalan SS20/2 (South Zone, not gated and guarded) last week at 10:30pm.
Suspect came on a motorbike, tried to snatch girl's bag but the girl threw her bag into her compound. The suspect managed to get away with the girl's handphone.

2) Try not to go to the bank ATMs at night.
At 11pm last week, a man was slashed at the neck at one of the banks in TTDI.
The victim went to deposit his cash at the ATM. Suddenly someone stood very close to him. The robber was hiding in between the ATMs. When the victim turned around, the robber slashed his neck and asked for money. The robber did not want the handphone. The victim gave him the money. Then someone else entered the ATM area and was also robbed. 
Police investigation found that normally the accomplices who act as lookout will be in 2 cars parked outside the bank.

Police release images of suspected ATM hackers

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have released images of some of the suspects who drained out stacks of cash from ATMs in branches belonging to Affin Bank, Al Rajhi Bank and Bank Islam.

Bukit Aman vowed on Tuesday to bring to justice the Latin American hackers who stole about RM3mil by hacking into automated teller machines (ATM) in three states over the weekend.

Police said the suspects hacked the machines by inserting a disc into the ATMs’ CD-ROMs. Read more ...........

Images of the suspected Latin American hackers