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Warga Nigeria dalang Love Scam, Parcel Scam tumpas
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KUALA LUMPUR - Satu sindiket penipuan Love Scam dan Parcel Scam yang didalangi warga Nigeria tumpas dalam serbuan berasingan di sekitar Kajang, Selangor pada Rabu.
Pengarah Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Komersial (JSJK) Bukit Aman, Datuk Mohd Kamarudin Md Din berkata, sepasukan pegawai dan anggota JSJK memberkas enam lelaki warga Nigeria dan seorang wanita tempatan dalam serbuan kira-kira jam 3 petang itu.
Menurutnya, polis turut merampas pelbagai barang yang disyaki digunakan dalam sindiket itu termasuk lapan komputer riba, 17 telefon bimbit, dua modem wifi serta dua kad mesin juruwang automatik (ATM). Siasatan mendapati sindiket yang aktif sejak lima tahun lalu itu menipu warga tempatan dan luar negara selain mempunyai kaitan dengan sekurang-kurangnya lapan kes, katanya dalam kenyataan pada Ahad.
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested six Nigerian men and a local woman believed to be part of a love scam syndicate.
Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Mohd Kamarudin Md Din said the seven suspects were arrested in two raids in Kajang on June 23. The seven, aged between 33 and 42, were part of an active love scam syndicate which targeted local as well as foreign victims. We also seized eight laptops, 17 mobile phones, three thumb drives, two modems, two routers, two ATM cards, two Nigerian passports and as an assortment of documents, he said in a statement on Sunday (June 27).
KUALA LUMPUR: A 44-year-old woman lost about RM2.7mil of her savings after she was duped by an American pilot in a love scam.
Kuala Lumpur Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) acting chief Supt Mohd Mahidisham Ishak said the woman lodged a police report on Thursday (April 15). She claimed that she got to know a foreign man, who is supposedly an American pilot, in November last year via the dating app, Tinder. Throughout their five-month relationship, she was asked to make various payments to a local company, purportedly for flying courses. Once her savings were depleted, she even borrowed money from her family members, he said when contacted on Friday (April 16).