I don't know if you have read in the papers recently about a guy who was tricked into paying a few thousand Ringgit to seek the release of a package that was purportedly held by "customs".
The story went that this guy was chatted up online by an African lady in London who told him that she intends to travel to Malaysia to visit him. Prior to her visit, she sent him a parcel that contained luxurious gifts.
Soon after, someone contacted him and told him that the parcel has arrived but he would need to pay for the courier fees, which he promptly did.
This "victim" felt something amiss when the "courier company" contacted him again for even more money supposedly to pay custom taxes and what not.
Apparently, this isn't a one-off case. A news report in New Straits Times yesterday reported that this large syndicate has been busted by the police and the number of victims is at least 150 Malaysians with a total loss of an estimated RM3.7 million over the past two years. Perhaps there are more who have yet to come forward.
It shows that we can’t simply trust people, even if we have chatted with them for a long time online, especially online.
The story went that this guy was chatted up online by an African lady in London who told him that she intends to travel to Malaysia to visit him. Prior to her visit, she sent him a parcel that contained luxurious gifts.
Soon after, someone contacted him and told him that the parcel has arrived but he would need to pay for the courier fees, which he promptly did.
This "victim" felt something amiss when the "courier company" contacted him again for even more money supposedly to pay custom taxes and what not.
Apparently, this isn't a one-off case. A news report in New Straits Times yesterday reported that this large syndicate has been busted by the police and the number of victims is at least 150 Malaysians with a total loss of an estimated RM3.7 million over the past two years. Perhaps there are more who have yet to come forward.
It shows that we can’t simply trust people, even if we have chatted with them for a long time online, especially online.
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