How was the person scammed?
He came across a Facebook ad for investment and followed the ad to WhatsApp chat where he was invited to a free investment advice group. He followed stock tips made money and then they invited him to download the Stifleone app available on both the App Store and Google Play Store. They show registration and trading license (no file available) and also mentioned affiliation with the Stifel .com investment company, coming to Malaysia.
Who was the scammer? And how did they scam
The group is led by Ruth Khoo and Kelvin Lee

He was able to invest in daily trading and even extract the profits from time to time. Then Ruth started pushing for IPO/FPO. Ruth mentioned that in case of non-payment, there will be an impact on CTOS, credit rating, no penalties, and when he was unable to subscribe,e they completely froze the account and asked for upfront payment. Screenshot for discussion below
Asking if unable to pay

second message

Then he got the final scam messages


Bank account on which he made the transfers

Admins, let me know if I need to fix anything in this message. The other message on gexertmax helped some people avoid the scam
Jul 4 2025, 05:35 PM, updated 6 months ago
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